schfs: snapshots
A snapshot is a tree root that is kept. The B-tree is copy-on-write, so the blocks a committed root reaches are already immutable -- nothing overwrites a block a committed tree can reach -- and retaining one costs a record: (SNAP_OBJECTID, KEY_SNAP, id) -> struct schfs_snap. The record names the root as it was *before* the record was added. Inserting it rewrites the path under copy-on-write and produces a new root, so a snapshot that included its own creation would name a block nobody had written yet. What makes it survive is the derivation. There is no free-space map on disk; it is rebuilt at mount by walking the tree, and that walk now covers every snapshot root as well as the live one. Without it a block reachable only from a snapshot looks free, gets handed out, and overwrites the data the snapshot exists to keep -- silently, surfacing only when the snapshot is read. A snapshot's own tree may hold older snapshot records; those are deliberately not followed, or deleting a snapshot could be undone by an older one's memory of it. Runtime frees are suspended while a snapshot exists. Knowing which freed blocks a snapshot still needs requires per-extent reference counting, which is a design and not a flag; until that exists the safe answer is to free nothing and let the next mount's derivation reclaim what is genuinely unreachable. Allocation is unaffected and stays correct -- it works from the in-use bitmap the derivation filled. The running free-blocks *counter* does drift from the truth while a snapshot is present, which is cosmetic and is reported by the test rather than asserted away. Tested in schfs_objtest: after a snapshot, the live tree shows new contents while the snapshot still shows the old ones; a file deleted from the live tree is still readable through the snapshot; deleting the snapshot removes the record and the space comes back at the next mount. schfs-check passes including the round-trip; bootcheck 108 [ok]. Not yet: snapshots are not reachable by name from userspace -- there is no mount-a-snapshot path, so this is the format and the mechanism, not the feature a user sees. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#define SCHFS_KEY_ATTR 4 // (ino, ATTR, namehash) -> attribute value
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#define SCHFS_KEY_INDEX 5 // (idxid, INDEX, valuehash) -> objectid
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#define SCHFS_KEY_CSUM 6 // (CSUM, CSUM, diskblk) -> uint32 CRC32c
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#define SCHFS_KEY_SNAP 7 // (SNAP, SNAP, id) -> struct schfs_snap
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// Data-block checksums live under one reserved object id, exactly as btrfs
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// keeps a checksum tree. Tree nodes carry their checksum in their parent
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// records "end-to-end checksums" would only cover metadata, which is the part
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// least likely to rot.
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#define SCHFS_CSUM_OBJECTID 1ULL
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// Snapshots live under their own reserved objectid, as ordinary records in the
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// live tree. A snapshot is nothing more than a tree root that is kept: the
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// B-tree is copy-on-write, so the blocks a root reaches are already immutable
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// as long as nothing frees them. Keeping one costs a record.
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#define SCHFS_SNAP_OBJECTID 2ULL
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// Object ids below this are reserved; the root directory is the first real one.
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#define SCHFS_FIRST_OBJECTID 16ULL
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#define SCHFS_VERSION 1
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#define SCHFS_LABEL_MAX 32
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// A retained tree root.
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//
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// The root a snapshot names is a *previous* version of the live tree, and it is
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// reached exactly as the live one is -- same node format, same checksums. What
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// makes it survive is schfs_space_scan walking it too, so its blocks are never
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// handed out again.
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//
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// The record is stored in the live tree, which means creating one rewrites the
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// path to it under copy-on-write and produces a new live root. That is correct
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// and is why the snapshot names the root as it was *before* the record was
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// added: a snapshot that included its own creation would have to refer to a
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// block that does not exist yet.
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#define SCHFS_SNAP_NAME_MAX 64
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// Set on a volume that has at least one snapshot. See schfs_space_free.
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#define SCHFS_SPACE_RETAIN_ALL 1
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struct schfs_snap {
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uint64_t root; // block number of the retained tree root
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uint64_t root_generation;
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uint32_t root_crc; // checksum of that root block
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uint32_t pad0;
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uint64_t created; // generation the snapshot was taken at
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char name[SCHFS_SNAP_NAME_MAX];
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};
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struct schfs_uberblock {
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uint32_t magic; // SCHFS_MAGIC
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uint32_t crc; // CRC32c of this struct, this field zeroed
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