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feat(mount): --notify-flush kicks the running daemon instead of taking the lease - #444

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Why

Cloud#3149: after bootstrap starts relayfile-mount, every workflow step flush runs relayfile-mount --once against the same local root. --once is a second supervisor, so it always loses the per-root mount lease:

acquire workspace mount lease: already held ... stop the existing mount before starting another supervisor

That is fatal for Native's multi-step file-handoff tick: critic writes verdicts.json, commit reads a stale copy.

--once is still correct when no daemon is running (seed, initial sync). This PR adds the post-daemon barrier.

Approach (option 1)

--notify-flush does not acquire the lease.

  1. Inspect the existing lease (read-only) for the daemon PID
  2. SIGUSR1 that process
  3. The daemon runs one full reconcile (so writes that settled before the signal are included)
  4. It writes a flush-ack with an incremented seq only for the kicked cycle
  5. --notify-flush waits until seq advances, then exits 0

A periodic interval cycle cannot satisfy the waiter: ack is recorded only on SIGUSR1.

Tests

  • inspectAt does not steal a held lease
  • --notify-flush with no daemon returns ErrNotHeld and does not start a supervisor
  • helper process holds the lease, parent --notify-flush kicks it, ack seq=1, lease still held
go test ./internal/mountlease ./cmd/relayfile-mount -count=1

Follow-up

Cloud must call --notify-flush for post-daemon flush (companion PR). Then a relayfile-mount release + snapshot bump to reach production. Merging this does not ship to Native sandboxes by itself.

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`--once` after bootstrap is a second supervisor, so it always loses the
per-root mount lease (cloud#3149). `--notify-flush` looks up the existing
lease, SIGUSR1s that daemon, and waits for an ack written only after the
kicked reconcile. Seed and initial sync stay on `--once` / `--push-local-once`.
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  • cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go
  • cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush.go
  • cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_other.go
  • cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix.go
  • cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix_test.go
  • internal/mountlease/lease.go
  • internal/mountlease/lease_test.go
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Adds --notify-flush to request reconciliation from a running Unix mount daemon without acquiring its lease. The daemon handles SIGUSR1, reconciles, and writes an acknowledgment. mountlease adds lease inspection and atomic acknowledgment APIs.

Changes

Mount flush notification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lease inspection and acknowledgment state
internal/mountlease/lease.go, internal/mountlease/lease_test.go
Adds normalized lease identity handling, held-lease inspection, ErrNotHeld, and atomic flush acknowledgment read/write APIs with tests.
Notify-flush command path
cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go
Adds the --notify-flush option, validates incompatible modes, and handles the request before normal lease acquisition.
Daemon signaling and reconciliation
cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix.go, cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_other.go, cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go, cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix_test.go
Adds Unix SIGUSR1 handling, acknowledgment polling, non-Unix stubs, timeout defaults, daemon reconciliation, and integration tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b92bf

A flush request can terminate the running mount daemon during startup, and stale lease metadata can cause a signal to reach the wrong process. These concrete availability and correctness risks should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NotifyFlushCLI
  participant mountlease
  participant MountDaemon
  NotifyFlushCLI->>mountlease: Inspect held lease
  mountlease-->>NotifyFlushCLI: Return daemon PID and prior FlushAck
  NotifyFlushCLI->>MountDaemon: Send SIGUSR1
  MountDaemon->>MountDaemon: Reconcile mount
  MountDaemon->>mountlease: Write incremented FlushAck
  NotifyFlushCLI->>mountlease: Poll FlushAck
  mountlease-->>NotifyFlushCLI: Return matching acknowledgment
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A rabbit taps SIGUSR1,
The mount wakes up and starts to run.
It writes an ack, the sequence grows,
The lease stays held as reconciliation flows.
No new lease is taken today—
Flush complete, then hop away!

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix_test.go (1)

116-136: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The helper reimplements the daemon acknowledgment instead of exercising it.

runNotifyFlushHelper registers its own signal.Notify and writes a hardcoded FlushAck{Seq: 1}. It does not call listenFlushRequests or recordFlushAck. The test therefore proves the signal transport and the waiter logic, but it does not cover the production daemon path.

This gap hides the registration-timing defect flagged in cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go at Lines 614-629: the real daemon installs its SIGUSR1 handler only after the first reconcile, so a signal sent earlier terminates it. A helper built on listenFlushRequests and recordFlushAck would also validate the prev.Seq + 1 increment rule.

Consider driving the helper through those two functions, and derive the expected sequence from recordFlushAck instead of asserting the literal 1.

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In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix_test.go` around lines 116 - 136, Update
runNotifyFlushHelper to use the production listenFlushRequests and
recordFlushAck flow instead of registering its own signal handler and writing a
hardcoded FlushAck. Ensure the helper installs the listener before waiting for
the request, records the acknowledgment through recordFlushAck, and derives the
expected sequence using the existing previous-sequence increment behavior.
cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_other.go (1)

22-39: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the duplicated helpers to a shared file.

recordFlushAck and notifyFlushWait are identical to the versions in cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix.go. Neither uses a platform-specific API. Keeping two copies invites drift, for example if the acknowledgment sequence rule or the default wait changes in only one file.

Move both functions into an untagged file, for example cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush.go, and keep only listenFlushRequests and notifyRunningMountFlush in the build-tagged files.

Also use errors.New at Line 19, because the message has no format verb.

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In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_other.go` around lines 22 - 39, Move the
shared helpers recordFlushAck and notifyFlushWait from the platform-specific
notification files into an untagged shared file, leaving only
listenFlushRequests and notifyRunningMountFlush in the build-tagged files; also
change the error construction at the referenced line to use errors.New because
the message has no formatting verbs.
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Inline comments:
In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go`:
- Around line 614-629: Move the listenFlushRequests call to the beginning of
runSinglePollingMount, before executeMount, the initial run(true), watcher
setup, or any lease publication; reuse the returned buffered channel in the
existing flush loop. Keep the one-shot modes’ existing early returns unchanged.

In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix.go`:
- Around line 39-52: Update inspectAt to probe lease ownership with tryLockFile
using a separate lock-file handle: return ErrNotHeld when the probe acquires the
lock, continue only on lock contention, and propagate other probe errors. Update
the notify-flush signaling path to use identity-bound signaling so PID reuse
cannot signal an unrelated process between validation and SIGUSR1.

In `@internal/mountlease/lease.go`:
- Around line 191-197: Update inspectAt’s JSON unmarshal error path to return
the same ErrNotHeld result used when meta.PID is non-positive, treating empty or
unreadable lease payloads as an unheld lease instead of returning a decode
error.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_other.go`:
- Around line 22-39: Move the shared helpers recordFlushAck and notifyFlushWait
from the platform-specific notification files into an untagged shared file,
leaving only listenFlushRequests and notifyRunningMountFlush in the build-tagged
files; also change the error construction at the referenced line to use
errors.New because the message has no formatting verbs.

In `@cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix_test.go`:
- Around line 116-136: Update runNotifyFlushHelper to use the production
listenFlushRequests and recordFlushAck flow instead of registering its own
signal handler and writing a hardcoded FlushAck. Ensure the helper installs the
listener before waiting for the request, records the acknowledgment through
recordFlushAck, and derives the expected sequence using the existing
previous-sequence increment behavior.
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Comment thread cmd/relayfile-mount/main.go Outdated
Comment thread cmd/relayfile-mount/notify_flush_unix.go
Comment thread internal/mountlease/lease.go
Review on #444: SIGUSR1 could kill the supervisor before the handler was
installed, Inspect trusted leftover PID metadata after Release, and a
failed kicked reconcile still wrote a successful ack.

Install (or ignore) SIGUSR1 before the lease is published. Inspect only
treats a currently locked lease file as held. Ack OK is set from the
kicked Reconcile error, and the waiter waits two cycle timeouts.
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