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template: partition template caches by execution environment - #1075
Template-manager keeps each execution environment's builds, base snapshots and tag pins in their own cache partition, so a template's default-environment build and a twin of the same rootfs bound to another environment can sit on one node, each resolving its own entries. The migration that adds the partition to the keys of four tables is bundled again, and every reader and writer of a build's rows and directories names its partition. A legacy-layout build that a node already holds for another environment is adopted in place, not dropped. Sandbox-manager, node-manager and node-ctl switch to partitioned builds where part 5 left them on the legacy layout.
This is part 6 of a six-PR stack, described under Stack below: the migration and template-manager keyed by partition. Parts 1 to 5 have merged; this PR targets main.
Terms
Cache partition: TemplateCachePartition, a build's place in the node cache. The legacy partition (key '', directory {hash}) holds builds bound to the initial environment or to none, plus legacy-layout builds of another environment that startup recovery adopts; another environment's new builds use Environment(<ref>) (directory {hash}@{environment}). It's part of the key of template_builds, template_build_components, template_snapshots and template_pinned_tags.
Twin: a build of the same rootfs digest bound to a different execution environment.
Adopted build: a legacy-layout {hash} build bound to a non-initial environment, kept at its path and filed in the legacy partition.
Rowless directory: a build directory on disk with no template_builds row.
Claim: the per-digest ownership entry from part 1, keyed by (name, content_hash).
The problem
Template-manager keys its build, component, snapshot and tag-pin tables, and its build directories, by (name, content_hash). A twin has the same rootfs digest as its default-environment sibling, so the two collide in every table and directory, and a node can't hold both. Once a release has an environment-bound twin, its builds, base snapshots and tag pins overwrite the default build's.
Keying them by partition needs a migration that rebuilds four tables. The release before it must keep writing while the migration applies under it, and must be able to run against the migrated database after a rollback. PR #1070 provides both: its upserts don't name a conflict target, and its startup reverses this migration when every row is in the legacy partition.
Once the tables carry a partition, every path that touches a build has to pick one:
A lookup has to prefer the build of the environment it runs under, and still find a compatible build when that environment has none of its own.
A pull only learns a release's partition from its manifest or metadata, so it has to read them before it chooses a build directory.
Startup recovery has to file a directory under the right partition. A node that admitted another environment before partitions existed holds that environment's builds in the legacy layout, some under suspended sandboxes whose btrfs-send snapshots name them as their parent. Dropping or moving one would lose a restore parent, force a re-pull, and change the received UUID an older release expects after a rollback.
Pins, eviction protection and the claim name rootfs digests, so they have to cover every partition of one. DeleteTemplateBuild has to remove every partition of a digest, and an eviction mustn't remove a build another owner of its digest is using.
Each partition needs its own base snapshot, captured under its own environment, and a rebuilt snapshot in one partition must invalidate only the pool sandboxes that boot it.
Pools pick a template's build by name and digest. Once an environment-bound Cloud Hypervisor build has its own partition, a pool must find it there, and must boot the build sandbox-manager actually resolves.
Sandbox-manager's btrfs codecs (suspend encode, disk-snapshot encode, restore receive) name a template build by digest only, so a sandbox booted from another partition's build can't use them: its suspend falls back to the Full codec, and its disk snapshots, which have no fallback, fail. A receive must also use the build the stream was encoded against, which isn't always the first candidate.
Sandbox-manager publishes a capture's base snapshot and reads catalog metadata from the legacy directory, and node-ctl publishes one build per template name to an inventory keyed by (node, name, digest), where a twin would overwrite its sibling.
Partition-aware reads, writes and directories. Build, component, snapshot and pin queries, eviction, the stuck-eviction reaper, LRU touches, base snapshots and every build and snapshot directory carry the partition. upsert_build refuses an environment-partition row whose binding names another partition; a legacy row may carry any binding, since only startup recovery files one that way. Registration files a build under the partition its metadata binds, and an import under the one its manifest binds, else its metadata's; an import whose header selects a different environment is refused with INVALID_ARGUMENT, and the in-flight import key names the build directory. Stamp jobs carry partition_environment and dedup on the build directory name, and a job enqueued before partitions reads as the legacy build's. Responses to GetTemplate, ExportTemplate and registration set TemplateRef.environment to the resolved build's binding.
Compatible lookups.TemplateRef.environment is a preference: a lookup of a digest (find_ready_build) returns the build in the selected partition, then the legacy build, then any other. So an environment whose builds were adopted resolves them through the legacy fallback, with nothing pulled. A lookup with no digest returns the template's newest build of any partition; same-date builds go to the larger content hash, and builds of one digest to the preferred partition, then the legacy one. A lookup touches the LRU of the build it serves.
Pins and eviction. Tag pins are keyed per partition; prefetch pins the legacy partition, since cluster tag resolution names no environment. Pins, warm-pool protection and active-sandbox protection name digests, so the planner lifts them onto every cached partition of a protected digest. Twins otherwise evict on their own LRU positions, and each eviction's compare-and-swap, row deletes and disk delete name its partition.
Eviction holds the digest claim. The GC tick's eviction and DeleteIdleTemplate try each candidate's claim without waiting and skip a digest a pull, import, registration or delete holds; DeleteIdleTemplate then answers a retryable ABORTED. The lock order is the eviction gate, then the claim, then the DB mutex, so a gate holder never waits on a claim and nothing holding a claim waits for the gate. Base-snapshot publication waits for the claim and records the snapshot only if its build still has a ready row in its partition; otherwise it removes the captured files. The publish step runs as its own task, so a base-snapshot build that times out while it waits still records the snapshot or removes the captured files.
Pulls probe the partition first. Before choosing a build directory, a pull fetches the release's manifest.json and metadata.json into a transient {hash}.importing.partition-probe.{uuid} sibling, reads the binding (manifest first, then metadata), and writes those bytes into the build directory instead of fetching them again. The probe directory is import staging, so a crashed process's one is reaped with other staging before the socket binds. The subvolume create, finalize and delete requests to node-manager name the partition. A rowless directory refuses the pull only when it's in the probed partition; one in another partition is left alone and doesn't block the pull.
A pull mid-eviction is refused before the fast path.refuse_pull_during_eviction refuses a pull retryably while any partition of the digest is in state='deleting', before the pull's DB fast path counts that row as present and before the rowless-directory check; do_pull checks again for an eviction that starts in between.
Startup recovery adopts legacy-layout builds in place.validate_partition_binding accepts a legacy-layout {hash} directory whatever environment it's bound to. It stays at its path, filed in the legacy partition with its row, base snapshots and stamped received UUID, so a restore whose stream names it as its parent finds it, and a rollback to a release without partitions serves it unchanged. Only a {hash}@{environment} directory, which only a release with partitions creates, must match its binding; one bound elsewhere is dropped. A binding under a schema this release doesn't support yet is a transient rejection: the row goes and the directory stays for a release that can read it. A binding that's invalid for its schema is a permanent rejection, removed only when no sandbox depends on the digest. The GC tick's rowless check handles {hash}@{environment} directories and files the row in its partition, and its cursor runs over build directory names. Both take the digest's claim, so one claim covers every partition.
Invalid builds a sandbox depends on stay on disk. Before startup recovery or the GC tick removes an invalid build, it asks sandbox-manager which sandboxes depend on the digest. While one does, or while sandbox-manager can't answer, only the row in that partition goes; the directory stays, rowless, for a later GC tick to check again, as eviction and DeleteTemplateBuild already keep a build a sandbox depends on. It asks once per recovery scan or GC tick and waits at most 5 s; an answer it doesn't get counts as "can't say" for the rest of that scan or tick. A digest someone held during the startup scan gets its own answer once the holder lets go, since that wait has no bound and a sandbox may come to depend on the build meanwhile.
Base-snapshot registration retries on the GC tick. When startup recovery or the GC tick restores a build whose base snapshots don't all read or record, the build stays served with the ones that did, and each tick retries the rest, a bounded number of builds per tick in rotating order, from the build's own partition's snapshot directory. A repair holds the digest's claim and a permit until it ends, and a snapshot whose directory a prune removed after its read isn't recorded. A snapshot is recorded only while its build has a row in its partition, since the runtime connection doesn't enforce foreign keys; startup recovery registers the snapshots of a digest someone held during its scan once it has checked the build and the build has a row.
Recovered builds bound only in metadata refresh in place.build_row_manifest copies a metadata.json binding into the row's manifest, and takes the runtime from the binding when the manifest names none. Startup recovery and upsert_build_from_digest_dir both use it, so a build recovered from a pull interrupted before it normalized its manifest stays in its partition when an import refreshes it, instead of being refused by the store.
Errors logged instead of discarded. A probe directory that can't be removed, and a pull cleanup task that fails, log a warning.
DeleteTemplateBuild removes every partition. It removes each partition of the digest that has a row, a build directory or a base-snapshot directory, artifacts before rows, and rejects a request that names an environment. A template or snapshots directory it can't list fails it with UNAVAILABLE. Sandboxes report the digest they booted, not its partition, so one dependent sandbox blocks the whole digest.
Twin base snapshots. Base-snapshot reconciliation runs once per partition with a ready build, each on that partition's newest build that belongs there (get_latest_build_in_partition): any legacy row, adopted ones included, or an environment partition's row bound to that environment. A build outside the legacy partition is captured through sandbox-manager's environment create path, so it cold-boots under its own environment, and a node that doesn't admit that environment refuses the capture. Backoff is per build directory, the template reports every partition's error, labelled outside the legacy partition, and the result is recorded inside the detached reconcile task.
Pool selection is partition-aware.pool_base_build applies PR lifecycle: support CH Linux and Windows memory lifecycle and pools #1423's eligibility over every partition. Of the eligible builds it takes a Firecracker build first, so a template with an initial-environment Firecracker build keeps booting it; then one in the legacy partition; then the newest by date and digest.
Pool creates and clones reach sandbox-manager without an environment, and its lookup of a digest (find_ready_build with no preference) returns the row with the lowest partition key, legacy first. So of each digest's rows only that one is a candidate. A legacy row is one whatever its binding, so an adopted build can fill its template's pool; an environment partition's row bound elsewhere never is.
A refill touches the chosen build in its own partition.
A rebuilt legacy base snapshot invalidates the template's pool sandboxes as before. Another partition's snapshot invalidates only the pool sandboxes that booted that partition's build, read from each one's execution through sandbox-manager's State, plus any whose partition can't be read (snapshot_invalidates_pool_sandbox).
Name the parent's partition in the sandbox codecs. Sandbox-manager sets part 5's environment_build on the suspend-encode, disk-snapshot-encode and receive requests for a sandbox bound to an environment outside the legacy layout, reading the binding as the snapshot sidecar records it, beside the legacy content_hash; on restore the sidecar's binding is also the template lookup's partition preference. In node-manager, the encodes drop part 5's fallback to the digest's other cached partitions and take only the requested partition's build or the legacy one, so a new stream never names a parent a restoring node may lack. Receive still checks the other cached partitions, since an older stream can name one, and takes the passing candidate whose received UUID is the stream's parent: incremental_parent_uuid reads the CLONE_UUID of the first stream's SNAPSHOT command. If no candidate is that parent, receive fails with FailedPrecondition naming its received UUID instead of reaching btrfs receive with the wrong parent. A full stream, or one it can't read, takes the first passing candidate.
Sandbox-manager and node-ctl read partitioned builds. A capture sandbox publishes its base snapshot under the cache partition template-manager names in CreateTemplateBaseSnapshotRequest.cache_partition (field 4): the partition of the build row the capture booted, which is the legacy partition for an adopted build whatever its binding, and otherwise the capture's own environment's. Sandbox-manager refuses any other partition before the capture starts, leaving the sandbox paused, and uses the legacy one when an older template-manager names none. So a twin's capture never overwrites its sibling's, and an adopted build's snapshot lands where template-manager looks for it. TemplateFullInfo gains cache_partition (field 25), the partition of the build's row, which ListTemplates sets. Sandbox-manager's template catalog reads a build's metadata from the directory that partition names rather than deriving it from the binding, so an adopted build's metadata comes from its legacy directory; an unset value, from a template-manager without partitions, or one that doesn't parse reads the legacy directory. The catalog keeps the first listed build of a digest, which is the legacy one. Node-ctl publishes each template name's legacy-partition build, and another partition's only when the name has none, reading the partition from cache_partition rather than the binding, so an adopted build counts as legacy; a template-manager that sends none is read as legacy.
Unchanged: a lookup that names an environment but no digest still returns the template's newest build of any partition, with the environment breaking ties within one digest. Cluster-side twin identity (release index, lookup selector, object-store layout, inventory key) and environment-aware prefetch belong to follow-up work; docs/execution-environments.md lists them under "Known limits until the cluster side carries partitions". Gaps this PR leaves are under Not covered.
Stack
The stack lets one node cache two builds of the same rootfs that are bound to different execution environments (twins), for example a template's default-environment build and its twin bound to a newer runtime. Each twin needs its own build directory, catalog row, base snapshots and tag pins. Before the stack, template-manager keys all of those by (name, content_hash), so twins collide. Part 6 adds a cache partition, derived from the build's execution environment, to that key, with a migration. Parts 1 to 4 harden the single-partition code first, so the migration lands on code whose ownership and recovery rules are already settled. Each part builds, passes its tests and is safe to deploy on its own, and each PR targets the one below it.
Plumbing for cache partitions outside template-manager storage, inert until part 6.
6
This PR
The migration, and template-manager keyed by (name, content_hash, cache partition).
Release identity outside the node isn't part of the stack. The control plane's release catalog, its lookups, its object-store layout and the node inventory stay keyed by (name, content_hash), so a twin of a published release can't be registered or published until a separate control-plane change lets them tell twins apart.
Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --check passes.
Full workspace on Linux x86-64 through CI's run-rust-checks.sh: clippy and cargo arch pass, and the full workspace nextest passes (12,536 tests); in the privileged lane 70 of 76 pass, and the six that fail are in crates this change doesn't touch and fail on the test host for lack of fs-verity and a private cgroup namespace.
cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-template-mgr passes.
Regression tests:
Store and lookups: twins_of_one_rootfs_resolve_their_own_builds, same_date_builds_resolve_to_the_larger_content_hash, an_environment_partition_s_latest_build_skips_rows_bound_elsewhere, the_legacy_partition_s_latest_build_takes_an_adopted_build, lookups_prefer_the_selected_partition_then_legacy, twins_keep_separate_components_and_base_snapshots, builds_are_refused_outside_their_binding_partition, tag_pins_are_kept_per_partition_and_protect_the_digest, and over the service get_template_resolves_each_environment_build_of_one_rootfs, a_lookup_touches_only_the_build_it_serves, an_environment_without_its_own_build_falls_back_to_the_legacy_build, an_uncached_digest_pulls_without_a_partition_selector, requested_environments_select_their_partition, imports_target_the_partition_their_manifest_binds, registering_a_flat_layout_finds_partitioned_builds and list_templates_reports_each_build_s_cache_partition.
Eviction and the claim: twins_evict_independently_and_share_digest_protection, execute_one_on_a_twin_leaves_its_legacy_sibling, idle_template_eviction_takes_each_partition_of_a_digest, eviction_skips_a_digest_someone_holds, idle_template_eviction_skips_a_digest_someone_holds, a_base_snapshot_is_not_published_for_a_build_deleted_during_capture.
Adoption: startup_adopts_legacy_layout_builds_of_another_environment_in_place (legacy-layout builds of a non-initial environment, some without a row and some under suspended sandboxes: nothing is deleted or moved, each keeps or regains its legacy row, and that environment's lookups resolve them with no pull), recovery_keeps_a_legacy_dir_bound_to_another_environment, recovery_keeps_a_legacy_layout_build_a_suspended_sandbox_depends_on.
Recovery and the GC tick: partition_binding_rejects_a_dir_bound_elsewhere, recovery_registers_a_twin_dir_in_its_own_partition (binding in the manifest or only in metadata.json), a_recovered_twin_bound_only_in_its_metadata_refreshes_in_place, an_unreadable_metadata_binding_keeps_the_twin_dir, recovery_drops_a_partitioned_dir_bound_elsewhere, the_gc_tick_restores_a_rowless_twin_dir_in_its_own_partition, the_gc_tick_keeps_an_invalid_build_until_no_sandbox_depends_on_it, a_held_invalid_build_is_checked_against_a_fresh_dependent_answer.
Delta bases: a_cached_only_lookup_skips_a_rowless_dir_for_a_verified_sibling (a rowless partial legacy directory next to a verified twin resolves to the twin; alone it's NOT_FOUND and nothing is pulled), a_cached_only_lookup_takes_an_exact_digest_and_no_org.
Base snapshots: base_snapshot_capture_boots_a_twin_under_its_environment, base_snapshot_reconcile_resolves_the_newest_build_of_its_own_partition, base_snapshot_reconcile_resolves_an_adopted_legacy_build, partition_reconciles_report_the_legacy_hash_and_label_twin_errors, and in sandbox-manager a_capture_publishes_under_its_own_environment_s_cache_partition.
Snapshot publication: a_capture_publishes_under_the_partition_template_manager_names (sandbox-manager: an adopted build's capture goes to the legacy partition, another environment's partition must be the capture's own, an unparseable one is refused), template_snapshot_refuses_its_partition_before_checkpointing (a refused partition fails before the sandbox enters checkpointing).
Pools: a_cloud_hypervisor_environment_build_fills_a_pool_from_its_partition (only a CH build bound to its environment is cached; a refill names it with its partition and touches it there), pools_skip_an_environment_build_whose_digest_has_a_legacy_row, pools_skip_a_build_the_environment_less_lookup_would_not_resolve (two environment rows of one digest, no legacy one), pools_skip_environment_rows_filed_outside_their_binding_partition (filed under another environment, and an unreadable binding), pool_refills_take_an_adopted_legacy_build, a_snapshot_in_one_partition_invalidates_only_that_partition_s_pools, and PR lifecycle: support CH Linux and Windows memory lifecycle and pools #1423's pool_refills_prefer_firecracker_and_admit_cloud_hypervisor with each build filed in its binding's partition.
Codecs: codec_requests_name_the_partition_of_a_bound_sandbox_s_parent (sandbox-manager), restore_template_lookup_uses_validated_owner, which now also checks the restore lookup carries the snapshot's binding, and in node-manager an_incremental_stream_names_its_parent_s_received_uuid (a full stream names none; an incremental one names its CLONE_UUID; a SNAPSHOT without one, or another first command, is an error) and a_receive_uses_the_candidate_the_stream_descends_from (the stream's parent wins over the binding's partition, an unknown parent is FailedPrecondition, a full stream takes the first candidate).
Catalog and inventory: template_catalog_reads_a_twin_s_metadata_from_its_partition, template_catalog_reads_an_adopted_build_s_metadata_from_its_legacy_dir and template_catalog_lists_a_build_with_an_unreadable_cache_partition_from_its_legacy_dir (sandbox-manager), template_publication_prefers_each_name_s_legacy_build (node-ctl).
Not validated: a live rolling deploy in either direction.
Not covered
A restore doesn't pull its stream's parent. Receive now fails with FailedPrecondition naming the parent's received UUID when no cached build is that parent. The restore's template lookup is still a preference: it prefers the snapshot's binding but falls back to another partition of the digest without pulling, so a node holding only a sibling partition's build of that digest doesn't pull the stream's parent, and the restore keeps failing there. Twins only exist where a node admits an environment besides the initial one.
The codecs aren't tested end to end. The tests cover how each request names its parent's partition, how node-manager reads a stream's parent and how it picks among the candidates; a run against a real btrfs parent needs a privileged btrfs host or Kind.
The partition probe isn't tested end to end: it needs a volume manager. Its binding read (release_partition), its directory's name, and the refusal of a rowless directory in the probed partition (probed_partition_refusal) are tested; the call site in try_pull_from, and the absence of a digest-wide check in the pull owner, aren't, since both read the fixed template root.
A newer release's twins after a rollback. A partitioned build whose manifest schema this release can't read is rejected permanently.
A selected environment's lookup by template name. A newer build of a different rootfs bound to another environment wins, and sandbox-manager's cold-boot check refuses the create even if the selected partition holds a usable build. Making an explicit environment a hard partition constraint is tracked as a follow-up; it can't happen while nodes admit only the default environment.
A pool can't boot a build its digest's environment-less lookup doesn't resolve, such as an environment build whose digest also has a legacy row. Naming the partition in a pool create would need sandbox-manager to accept a pool member on its environment create path, which it refuses. Until then, the pool takes the next eligible build or stays empty.
Recording a base-snapshot reconcile's result happens inside its detached task, so a caller that disconnects mid-capture still gets it recorded; no test covers that path, since the capture dials sandbox-manager.
The per-sandbox invalidation loop has no test: it dials sandbox-manager's fixed socket. Its decision (snapshot_invalidates_pool_sandbox) and the partition it reads from a sandbox's execution (pool_sandbox_partition) are tested.
Firecracker builds outside the legacy partition lose to legacy ones in pool selection; no test covers that ordering, because the catalog has only one Firecracker environment.
An adopted build holds its digest's legacy slot. A legacy-layout build bound to a non-initial environment stays in the legacy partition at {hash}, so on that node an initial-environment build of the same digest can't be cached beside it: that environment's lookup resolves the adopted legacy row and serves it, and a pull's fast path counts a row of the digest in any partition, so nothing pulls the other build. The adopted build leaves the slot when it's evicted or deleted, and the next pull files the digest under the partition its binding selects. A node only holds such a twin pair once twins can be published, which needs the control-plane change.
Dependencies
Parts 1-5 of the stack have merged (see Stack); this PR merges into main.
A node that admitted another execution environment before partitions existed holds that environment's builds in the legacy {hash} layout, some of them under suspended sandboxes whose btrfs-send snapshots name them as their parent. This release adopts those builds in place: they keep their path, row, base snapshots and stamped received UUID, that environment's lookups resolve them through the legacy fallback, and nothing is re-pulled.
Evidence: a Kind upgrade run that seeds legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment under part 5's image, suspends sandboxes whose btrfs-send deltas name one of them as their parent, then rolls the node to this change. The run used a revision of this commit that differs only in base-snapshot publication's partition (field 4 above, which it didn't exercise) and in being based on part 5's branch rather than main.
Result: on every node the adopted builds' directories, inodes, subvolume and received UUIDs, and rows are unchanged after the roll, now filed in the legacy partition; startup recovery confirms each against its row, with no directory dropped, no pull, no eviction and no error. A new create bound to that environment boots the adopted build without a pull, and the template catalog reads its metadata from the legacy directory. A sandbox left suspended on its node across the roll restores from its local snapshot, and one whose snapshot lives only in object storage is received against the adopted parent; both read back a marker written before the suspend. Rolling back to the previous part's image reverses the migration, since every row is in the legacy partition, serves the same builds, and restores, suspends and wakes work.
Before deploying to any environment that ran a non-initial environment, count, per node, the legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment and whether any sandbox depends on them, read-only. It's a check, not a blocker: adoption keeps those builds either way, and the count tells you what to watch after the roll.
Severity and risk
Severity: Low. The partitioning only matters for builds bound to a non-default execution environment.
Risk: Medium. The migrator rebuilds four tables while the previous pod still serves; that pod runs PR #1070 or later, whose writes succeed on the migrated schema. A pod of this release still serving while an older migrator reverses the database fails its queries until it exits. Startup recovery keeps legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment where they are, and never removes the directory of an invalid build a sandbox depends on, or of one while sandbox-manager can't answer. Eviction now skips a digest whose claim is held, so a busy digest can stay cached a tick longer. Editing the migration later would break the rollback to PR #1070; the checksum test fails if the up SQL changes. Roll back by deploying PR #1070 or later: remove any {hash}@{environment} build, snapshot or replaced directories first, since its check counts rows only, and run db/README.md's read-only query to confirm every row is in the legacy partition. Its startup then reverses the migration with no database step, and adopted builds, which never moved, are served as before. A database with environment-partition rows, or a rollback past PR #1070, needs the manual procedure in docs/execution-environments.md.
Docs
db/README.md: "Template cache partition migration" covers when a rollback to a release that doesn't bundle the migration needs no database step, the directories to remove first, a read-only query for the rows that make it refuse, why the SQL must stay byte-identical, and that a release bundling it keeps its unbundled-list entry, inert.
docs/execution-environments.md: a new "Template caches per environment" section covers the partition layout, how a build's binding picks its partition, in-place adoption of legacy-layout builds bound to another environment, startup recovery and its dependent-sandbox guard, the pull rule, the digest claim and the GC tick's check as they apply to partitioned builds, the lookup preference, TemplateFullInfo.cache_partition and the catalog's metadata read, DeleteTemplateBuild across partitions, per-partition base snapshots and pool invalidation, partition-aware pool selection, deploy order and mixed-version behavior including the codecs and the delta transfers an older template-manager's unmarked cached_only answers rule out, and the known limits until the cluster side carries partitions. Its rollback procedure: a release from the withdrawn interval reverses the migration itself; sandbox-manager stays stopped from step 1 until the older template-manager runs, so it can't publish a partitioned snapshot in between; step 2 says btrfs-send snapshots encoded against a partitioned parent are lost on rollback, and runs the read-only migration-history checks, so a database the procedure doesn't cover stops it before anything is removed; step 3 also lists {hash}@{environment}.replaced.{uuid} directories and tells subvolumes from plain directories; step 4 runs down once, and a second down fails at the baseline's rollback floor. The registration section notes that a registration bound to another environment's partition is a separate node-local build.
The down SQL keeps the header it first shipped with; the rollback procedure lives in the docs.
proto/template/manager/v1/manager.proto: TemplateRef.environment documents the lookup preference, the latest-build tie-breaks, the response binding and DeleteTemplateBuild's rejection of it; TemplateFullInfo.cache_partition documents that a build's directory follows its row's partition, not its binding; DeleteIdleTemplate documents ABORTED while another owner holds one of its builds.
AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the partitioning changes in template-manager, sandbox-manager, node-manager and node-ctl, their tests and the documentation changes, ran the validation, and drafted this description.
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- Around line 1261-1283: Update the eviction flow around `claim_digest` and
`execute_one_async` to retain the digest claim and eviction gate until deletion
has fully completed, including when `gc_tick` is cancelled during node-manager
deletion. Ensure the in-flight eviction is drained before shutdown releases
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/db/tests.rs:
- Around line 1015-1016: Update
`same_date_builds_resolve_to_the_larger_content_hash` to also cover decode
failures: after the larger-build assertions, make that row’s artifact size
undecodable and assert `get_latest_build` returns an error. Preserve the
existing tie-breaking assertions.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/startup_recovery.rs:
- Around line 1089-1100: Update upsert_snapshot_if_present to check for the
matching build row before checking snapshot files or inserting a snapshot. Use
get_build under the caller-held lock, return false when no build exists, and
propagate lookup errors through the helper’s Result; preserve the restored-build
path when its parent row exists.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/volume.rs:
- Line 3125: Update pull_resolved_owner to receive the caller’s requested
partition and use it in the local_build_exists fast-path check; replace the
partition-agnostic db::build_exists check with a partition-aware lookup that
matches the caller’s lookup scope. Preserve the existing pull behavior when no
matching row exists, including when only a row in another partition is present.
Review comments at @docs/execution-environments.md:
- Around line 1783-1786: Qualify the rowless-directory recovery bound in the
scheduling description: state that the ceil(N / 2) guarantee applies only across
ticks with both shared slots free, and that the wait-time condition covers both
rowless checks and snapshot repairs, which retain their slots if they run past
their wait.
---
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Restore partition-aware tests for same-key updates and malformed latest-build
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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/service/btrfs_delegation.rs:
- Around line 1305-1311: Update the incremental_parent_uuid handling before
choose_stream_parent so parser errors are logged at warn level with the error
and stream path before falling back to None. Preserve the existing
parent-selection and fallback behavior.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_state_snapshot.rs:
- Around line 2015-2018: Move the `template_snapshot_partition` call in the
snapshot flow into the DB block, before transitioning the sandbox to
`Checkpointing`, and return the validated partition alongside `sandbox` and
`content_hash`. Reuse that value after `capture_vm_state` instead of validating
the partition after capture.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/startup_recovery.rs:
- Around line 1906-1916: Refresh the dependent-sandbox answer inside the
held_at_scan loop after claim_digest has acquired the digest claim, then pass
that fresh answer to reconcile_digest_dir_against_db; keep the existing
reconciliation flow unchanged.
Review comments at @docs/execution-environments.md:
- Around line 1994-1997: Add a procedure step between steps 2 and 3 that
inventories sandbox snapshots and suspend records by matching the parent’s
stamped received UUID, not the digest alone. Require each listed dependent to be
restored or explicitly preserved, then obtain administrator approval and verify
all listed dependents are restored before step 3 deletes the partitioned
parents.
- Around line 1947-1949: Update the mixed-version rollout paragraph about
`cached_only` to state that sandbox and snapshot exports send the full rootfs,
while delta imports fail with `FAILED_PRECONDITION` when the older
template-manager omits the echo, even for cached builds; operators must use a
full transfer until template-manager upgrades. Preserve the existing note that
an uncached digest may be pulled before the refusal.
- Around line 2008-2014: Move both read-only database migration history checks
from step 4 to step 2, before step 3 removes any directories. State that either
failed check must stop the procedure before deletion; keep the expected query
results and the later migrator step intact.
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Restore partition-aware tests that update each of those records at the same key
and verify the replacement, or give a specific reason for removing each check.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/db.rs:
- Line 743: Update get_snapshot to transpose the result of rows.next(),
preserving Ok(None) for a missing row while propagating row decode errors to the
caller.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
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- Weakened Safeguards Are Justified:
Restore partition-aware tests for same-key replacement of builds, components,
snapshots, and tag pins, or give a specific reason for removing each check.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/volume/tests.rs:
- Around line 1144-1147: Update the test around pull_resolved_owner to remove
the call and NoStorageLocations assertion, which do not exercise the
rowless-twin-dir behavior; also remove assert_untouched if it only checks the
try_exists-based probe. Rewrite the doc comment to state that the test checks
only that probed_partition_refusal is partition-scoped, preserving its Legacy
assertion.
---
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs:
- Line 1046: In reconcile_partition_base_snapshot, remove the unconditional
touch_lru call for the selected build. Touch that build only after retry_allowed
passes and immediately before starting its capture, so finding an existing
snapshot or deferring capture under backoff leaves its LRU timestamp unchanged.
---
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/execution-environments.md:
- Around line 1853-1859: Update the startup recovery statement in the paragraph
about digest claims: clarify that recovery skips held digests during its scan,
then waits for each claim and reconciles the directory if it still exists,
rather than leaving the digest to the GC tick. Preserve the documented
dependent-sandbox refresh and base-snapshot registration behavior.
---
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Restore partition-aware same-key replacement tests for builds, components,
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@coderabbitai please re-evaluate your changes-requested review on the current head, 4ed2587, and dismiss it if nothing actionable remains.
Every thread you opened is now fixed or answered, and resolved:
volume/tests.rs assertions that couldn't fail (fixed in abd2b4c): the test drops the pull_resolved_owner call and the untouched check, and adds a positive control that the same rowless dir refuses its own partition's probe. A mutant that ignores the partition fails it.
Partition reconcile touching idle twins' LRU clocks (fixed in ed72ea2): the touch runs only when a capture starts. a_deferred_partition_reconcile_leaves_the_build_s_lru_clock_alone fails against the previous commit.
Held-digest startup recovery wording in docs/execution-environments.md (fixed in 3e16cce).
get_snapshot row decode errors (db.rs): declined with reasons on the thread, and you withdrew it there, because the lookup filters on the requested partition key before decoding.
The failing pre-merge check, Weakened Safeguards Are Justified, is addressed in 4ed2587. It flagged the removed same-key replacement checks at db/tests.rs. They're restored, partition-aware, in same_key_upserts_replace_in_place_in_each_partition, which runs for the legacy partition and an environment partition. In each, it checks that a repeated upsert replaces a build's size and components, that the eviction guard still holds a deleting build, that a snapshot's hash and a tag's pin are replaced in place, and that the other partition's rows for the same name and digest are unchanged. A mutant that drops the partition from upsert_build's component delete fails both cases. The removed test's other half compared the bundled schema against the then-unbundled partition migration; that migration is now bundled, so there's only one schema to test.
1-12: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Confirm the applied down migration is byte-identical to its original.
This hunk rewrites the header comment of an applied migration's down file. An earlier thread on this file was closed after the header was restored to the original bytes. This change reintroduces the edit. db/README.md also states the migration's SQL must stay byte-identical. The checksum registry covers up migrations only. It cannot register a down-file revision.
The rollback instructions already exist in docs/execution-environments.md. Restore the original header. Keep the instructions only in the runbook. If the edit is intentional, confirm that no release reads this file's bytes.
#!/bin/bash
f=db/template-manager/20261026220935_template_cache_partitions.down.sql
h=db/template-manager/history/20261026220935_template_cache_partitions.down.sql
ls db/template-manager/history/ 2>/dev/null
if [ -f"$h" ];then diff "$f""$h"&&echo identical;elseecho"no history copy";fi
git log --oneline -5 -- "$f"
rg -n -C2 'template_cache_partitions' crates/l10_foundation/sqlite/src/template_manager.rs
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Restore the down migration’s header in the migration file to its original bytes,
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Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/tests/partitions.rs:
- Around line 649-679: Update build_base_snapshot_for_resolved to check for
rootfs.ext4 under the service-owned artifact root using build_artifacts_dir
before resolving sandbox memory or connecting to sandbox-manager. Ensure a
missing rootfs returns before any host template-directory or production socket
access, while preserving the existing capture flow when the file is present.
Review comments at
@db/template-manager/20261026220935_template_cache_partitions.down.sql:
- Around line 1-12: Restore the retired down migration’s header so the file is
byte-identical to its applied copy in migration history. Keep rollback-procedure
documentation outside the migration file.
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Review comments at
@db/template-manager/20261026220935_template_cache_partitions.down.sql:
- Around line 1-12: Restore the down migration’s header in the migration file to
its original bytes, keeping rollback instructions only in the existing runbook.
Use the migration history copy or repository history to verify byte identity; do
not change the SQL or other files.
---
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Restore partition-aware same-key replacement tests for builds, components,
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#!/bin/bashset -euo pipefail
python - <<'PY'import base64import difflibimport jsonimport subprocessrepo = "perplexityai/SPACE"base = "4ed25875db0d4e3429b0f2834ba853192e6b78a5"head = "7755e1d70ec166e6d8c8e42809d0564e2438508e"def api(endpoint): return json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["gh", "api", endpoint], text=True))def tree(commit): commit_data = api(f"repos/{repo}/git/commits/{commit}") tree_data = api(f"repos/{repo}/git/trees/{commit_data['tree']['sha']}?recursive=1") if tree_data.get("truncated"): raise RuntimeError(f"Tree for {commit} is truncated") return {item["path"]: item for item in tree_data["tree"] if item["type"] != "tree"}a, b = tree(base), tree(head)changed = [p for p in sorted(set(a) | set(b)) if a.get(p, {}).get("sha") != b.get(p, {}).get("sha")]print(f"Direct tree comparison: {len(changed)} changed paths")for p in changed: print(f" {p}")def blob(item): if not item or item["type"] != "blob": return None data = api(f"repos/{repo}/git/blobs/{item['sha']}") return base64.b64decode(data["content"]).decode("utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines(keepends=True)for p in changed: old, new = blob(a.get(p)), blob(b.get(p)) if old is None or new is None: print(f"\n--- {p}: non-blob or added/deleted; direct patch not shown ---") continue patch = "".join(difflib.unified_diff(old, new, fromfile=f"{base[:9]}/{p}", tofile=f"{head[:9]}/{p}", n=5)) print(f"\n=== {p} ===") if len(patch) > 40000: print(patch[:40000]) print("\n[patch truncated]") else: print(patch)PY
#!/bin/bashset -euo pipefail
ast-grep outline crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs --items all --match 'prune_base_snapshots_except'
rg -n -A 155 -B 8 'async fn prune_base_snapshots_except\s*\(' crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs
Length of output: 7333
@the-gigi-pplx GitHub reports the CodeRabbit changes-requested review on 3e16cce5d as dismissed and the PR review decision as approved. I did not dismiss or approve a review.
I found one test-safety issue on the current head, 7755e1d70:
In crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs at Line 1079, reconciliation checks fixed host snapshot paths before the new rootfs guard. The tests at service/tests/partitions.rs Line 707 and Line 749 can therefore depend on a matching host snapshot. If the rootfs guard regresses, they can also connect to the real sandbox-manager socket; without_sbx_connect_retries only disables retries.
Route the snapshot checks through the fixture’s artifact root and inject a refusing memory resolver or capture stub. That provides an independent fence if the guard regresses.
I recommend fixing that isolation before merging. I used the stored LRU guidance and the repository’s test-safety guidance for this assessment.
The saved Weakened Safeguards Are Justified assessment passed, but its freshness for this head is unverified. Recheck it and wait for the Rust CodeQL and direct Kind smoke checks, which were still running. I did not run tests.
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Repo: perplexityai/SPACE PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-11-06T20:22:54.061Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
Weakened safeguards are justified: Fail if the diff removes, disables, narrows, or weakens a test, an
assertion, a lint, a CI check, or a repository guard without a
specific reason in the description, in an adjacent code comment, or
in the attribute itself (`reason = "..."`). Examples, not a complete
list:
- removes or loosens a rule in an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file, a
skill under .agents/, CONTRIBUTING.md, or docs/rust/. Updating
the names and paths a rule refers to does not loosen it.
Also fail, whatever the reason, if one of those files gains or
changes text about how reviews, merge-risk ratings, or approvals
treat a change: CodeRabbit reads them as review guidance, so such an
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Pass otherwise. When failing, list each item with its file and line.
Learnt from: the-gigi-pplx
Repo: perplexityai/SPACE
Timestamp: 2026-11-07T06:19:18.899Z
Learning: Within repository "perplexityai/SPACE", only for files matching one of ["crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/service/snapshots.rs"]: When reviewing base-snapshot reconciliation across template cache partitions, check that finding an existing snapshot or deferring a retry under backoff does not advance the build's LRU clock. A build selected for a new capture should be touched before the capture starts, to protect it from eviction.
Learnt from: the-gigi-pplx
Repo: perplexityai/SPACE
Timestamp: 2026-11-07T01:55:31.650Z
Learning: Within repository "perplexityai/SPACE", only for files matching one of ["crates/l40_api/template/mgr/server/src/volume.rs"]: When reviewing rowless build-directory handling in template pulls, verify that the pull checks the release's selected partition and returns a retryable failure if that partition's directory exists without a row or cannot be checked. A rowless directory in another partition must not block the pull or be modified, so its restore dependencies remain intact.
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Summary
Template-manager keeps each execution environment's builds, base snapshots and tag pins in their own cache partition, so a template's default-environment build and a twin of the same rootfs bound to another environment can sit on one node, each resolving its own entries. The migration that adds the partition to the keys of four tables is bundled again, and every reader and writer of a build's rows and directories names its partition. A legacy-layout build that a node already holds for another environment is adopted in place, not dropped. Sandbox-manager, node-manager and node-ctl switch to partitioned builds where part 5 left them on the legacy layout.
This is part 6 of a six-PR stack, described under Stack below: the migration and template-manager keyed by partition. Parts 1 to 5 have merged; this PR targets main.
Terms
TemplateCachePartition, a build's place in the node cache. The legacy partition (key'', directory{hash}) holds builds bound to the initial environment or to none, plus legacy-layout builds of another environment that startup recovery adopts; another environment's new builds useEnvironment(<ref>)(directory{hash}@{environment}). It's part of the key oftemplate_builds,template_build_components,template_snapshotsandtemplate_pinned_tags.{hash}build bound to a non-initial environment, kept at its path and filed in the legacy partition.template_buildsrow.(name, content_hash).The problem
Template-manager keys its build, component, snapshot and tag-pin tables, and its build directories, by
(name, content_hash). A twin has the same rootfs digest as its default-environment sibling, so the two collide in every table and directory, and a node can't hold both. Once a release has an environment-bound twin, its builds, base snapshots and tag pins overwrite the default build's.Keying them by partition needs a migration that rebuilds four tables. The release before it must keep writing while the migration applies under it, and must be able to run against the migrated database after a rollback. PR #1070 provides both: its upserts don't name a conflict target, and its startup reverses this migration when every row is in the legacy partition.
Once the tables carry a partition, every path that touches a build has to pick one:
DeleteTemplateBuildhas to remove every partition of a digest, and an eviction mustn't remove a build another owner of its digest is using.(node, name, digest), where a twin would overwrite its sibling.How this fixes it
db/template-manager/20261026220935_template_cache_partitionsaddscache_partitionto the four tables' keys and files every existing row in the legacy partition. The migration's files move fromdb/template-manager/history/back into the bundled catalog. PR template-manager: reverse the next release's node_dirty_ref_revisions migration so its rollback stays image-only #1277 turned PR template-manager: revert the cache partition migration and reverse it where already applied #1070's reversal into a list of unbundled migrations. Its partition entry stays and reads this SQL from the bundled catalog, and the runner skips a version its catalog bundles, so the entry never reverses it here. Its tests model a release without the migration by filtering it out of this catalog. Its up SQL is byte-identical to the SQL PR template-manager: revert the cache partition migration and reverse it where already applied #1070's startup reverses, andpartition_migration_keeps_the_checksum_releases_reversepins the SHA-384,bb39d295eee07bfc5ff54e6d2f076efb42a50b43d7cedffd8907e9cbf73e7e9b2837295cb1131306798e1c3a4bf4b820. Upserts name the partitioned key as their conflict target.upsert_buildrefuses an environment-partition row whose binding names another partition; a legacy row may carry any binding, since only startup recovery files one that way. Registration files a build under the partition its metadata binds, and an import under the one its manifest binds, else its metadata's; an import whose header selects a different environment is refused withINVALID_ARGUMENT, and the in-flight import key names the build directory. Stamp jobs carrypartition_environmentand dedup on the build directory name, and a job enqueued before partitions reads as the legacy build's. Responses toGetTemplate,ExportTemplateand registration setTemplateRef.environmentto the resolved build's binding.TemplateRef.environmentis a preference: a lookup of a digest (find_ready_build) returns the build in the selected partition, then the legacy build, then any other. So an environment whose builds were adopted resolves them through the legacy fallback, with nothing pulled. A lookup with no digest returns the template's newest build of any partition; same-date builds go to the larger content hash, and builds of one digest to the preferred partition, then the legacy one. A lookup touches the LRU of the build it serves.DeleteIdleTemplatetry each candidate's claim without waiting and skip a digest a pull, import, registration or delete holds;DeleteIdleTemplatethen answers a retryableABORTED. The lock order is the eviction gate, then the claim, then the DB mutex, so a gate holder never waits on a claim and nothing holding a claim waits for the gate. Base-snapshot publication waits for the claim and records the snapshot only if its build still has a ready row in its partition; otherwise it removes the captured files. The publish step runs as its own task, so a base-snapshot build that times out while it waits still records the snapshot or removes the captured files.manifest.jsonandmetadata.jsoninto a transient{hash}.importing.partition-probe.{uuid}sibling, reads the binding (manifest first, then metadata), and writes those bytes into the build directory instead of fetching them again. The probe directory is import staging, so a crashed process's one is reaped with other staging before the socket binds. The subvolume create, finalize and delete requests to node-manager name the partition. A rowless directory refuses the pull only when it's in the probed partition; one in another partition is left alone and doesn't block the pull.refuse_pull_during_evictionrefuses a pull retryably while any partition of the digest is instate='deleting', before the pull's DB fast path counts that row as present and before the rowless-directory check;do_pullchecks again for an eviction that starts in between.validate_partition_bindingaccepts a legacy-layout{hash}directory whatever environment it's bound to. It stays at its path, filed in the legacy partition with its row, base snapshots and stamped received UUID, so a restore whose stream names it as its parent finds it, and a rollback to a release without partitions serves it unchanged. Only a{hash}@{environment}directory, which only a release with partitions creates, must match its binding; one bound elsewhere is dropped. A binding under a schema this release doesn't support yet is a transient rejection: the row goes and the directory stays for a release that can read it. A binding that's invalid for its schema is a permanent rejection, removed only when no sandbox depends on the digest. The GC tick's rowless check handles{hash}@{environment}directories and files the row in its partition, and its cursor runs over build directory names. Both take the digest's claim, so one claim covers every partition.DeleteTemplateBuildalready keep a build a sandbox depends on. It asks once per recovery scan or GC tick and waits at most 5 s; an answer it doesn't get counts as "can't say" for the rest of that scan or tick. A digest someone held during the startup scan gets its own answer once the holder lets go, since that wait has no bound and a sandbox may come to depend on the build meanwhile.build_row_manifestcopies ametadata.jsonbinding into the row's manifest, and takes the runtime from the binding when the manifest names none. Startup recovery andupsert_build_from_digest_dirboth use it, so a build recovered from a pull interrupted before it normalized its manifest stays in its partition when an import refreshes it, instead of being refused by the store.DeleteTemplateBuildremoves every partition. It removes each partition of the digest that has a row, a build directory or a base-snapshot directory, artifacts before rows, and rejects a request that names an environment. A template or snapshots directory it can't list fails it withUNAVAILABLE. Sandboxes report the digest they booted, not its partition, so one dependent sandbox blocks the whole digest.get_latest_build_in_partition): any legacy row, adopted ones included, or an environment partition's row bound to that environment. A build outside the legacy partition is captured through sandbox-manager's environment create path, so it cold-boots under its own environment, and a node that doesn't admit that environment refuses the capture. Backoff is per build directory, the template reports every partition's error, labelled outside the legacy partition, and the result is recorded inside the detached reconcile task.pool_base_buildapplies PR lifecycle: support CH Linux and Windows memory lifecycle and pools #1423's eligibility over every partition. Of the eligible builds it takes a Firecracker build first, so a template with an initial-environment Firecracker build keeps booting it; then one in the legacy partition; then the newest by date and digest.find_ready_buildwith no preference) returns the row with the lowest partition key, legacy first. So of each digest's rows only that one is a candidate. A legacy row is one whatever its binding, so an adopted build can fill its template's pool; an environment partition's row bound elsewhere never is.State, plus any whose partition can't be read (snapshot_invalidates_pool_sandbox).environment_buildon the suspend-encode, disk-snapshot-encode and receive requests for a sandbox bound to an environment outside the legacy layout, reading the binding as the snapshot sidecar records it, beside the legacycontent_hash; on restore the sidecar's binding is also the template lookup's partition preference. In node-manager, the encodes drop part 5's fallback to the digest's other cached partitions and take only the requested partition's build or the legacy one, so a new stream never names a parent a restoring node may lack. Receive still checks the other cached partitions, since an older stream can name one, and takes the passing candidate whose received UUID is the stream's parent:incremental_parent_uuidreads theCLONE_UUIDof the first stream'sSNAPSHOTcommand. If no candidate is that parent, receive fails withFailedPreconditionnaming its received UUID instead of reachingbtrfs receivewith the wrong parent. A full stream, or one it can't read, takes the first passing candidate.CreateTemplateBaseSnapshotRequest.cache_partition(field 4): the partition of the build row the capture booted, which is the legacy partition for an adopted build whatever its binding, and otherwise the capture's own environment's. Sandbox-manager refuses any other partition before the capture starts, leaving the sandboxpaused, and uses the legacy one when an older template-manager names none. So a twin's capture never overwrites its sibling's, and an adopted build's snapshot lands where template-manager looks for it.TemplateFullInfogainscache_partition(field 25), the partition of the build's row, whichListTemplatessets. Sandbox-manager's template catalog reads a build's metadata from the directory that partition names rather than deriving it from the binding, so an adopted build's metadata comes from its legacy directory; an unset value, from a template-manager without partitions, or one that doesn't parse reads the legacy directory. The catalog keeps the first listed build of a digest, which is the legacy one. Node-ctl publishes each template name's legacy-partition build, and another partition's only when the name has none, reading the partition fromcache_partitionrather than the binding, so an adopted build counts as legacy; a template-manager that sends none is read as legacy.mainadapted to partitions. PR node-ctl: delete local templates the cluster stops answering for #1091's idle-template eviction keeps both its idle bound and the partition in the eviction compare-and-swap, and names each build's partition in its disk delete. PR template: validate document schemas before touching disk images #954's export test takes the partition argument. PR lifecycle: support CH Linux and Windows memory lifecycle and pools #1423's pool test files its builds in their binding's partition. The tests of a retired-environment build and of local resolution use the partition-aware lookups.Unchanged: a lookup that names an environment but no digest still returns the template's newest build of any partition, with the environment breaking ties within one digest. Cluster-side twin identity (release index, lookup selector, object-store layout, inventory key) and environment-aware prefetch belong to follow-up work;
docs/execution-environments.mdlists them under "Known limits until the cluster side carries partitions". Gaps this PR leaves are under Not covered.Stack
The stack lets one node cache two builds of the same rootfs that are bound to different execution environments (twins), for example a template's default-environment build and its twin bound to a newer runtime. Each twin needs its own build directory, catalog row, base snapshots and tag pins. Before the stack, template-manager keys all of those by
(name, content_hash), so twins collide. Part 6 adds a cache partition, derived from the build's execution environment, to that key, with a migration. Parts 1 to 4 harden the single-partition code first, so the migration lands on code whose ownership and recovery rules are already settled. Each part builds, passes its tests and is safe to deploy on its own, and each PR targets the one below it.DeleteTemplateBuildcan clear one.(name, content_hash, cache partition).Release identity outside the node isn't part of the stack. The control plane's release catalog, its lookups, its object-store layout and the node inventory stay keyed by
(name, content_hash), so a twin of a published release can't be registered or published until a separate control-plane change lets them tell twins apart.Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --checkpasses.run-rust-checks.sh:clippyandcargo archpass, and the full workspace nextest passes (12,536 tests); in the privileged lane 70 of 76 pass, and the six that fail are in crates this change doesn't touch and fail on the test host for lack of fs-verity and a private cgroup namespace.cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-template-mgrpasses.twins_of_one_rootfs_resolve_their_own_builds,same_date_builds_resolve_to_the_larger_content_hash,an_environment_partition_s_latest_build_skips_rows_bound_elsewhere,the_legacy_partition_s_latest_build_takes_an_adopted_build,lookups_prefer_the_selected_partition_then_legacy,twins_keep_separate_components_and_base_snapshots,builds_are_refused_outside_their_binding_partition,tag_pins_are_kept_per_partition_and_protect_the_digest, and over the serviceget_template_resolves_each_environment_build_of_one_rootfs,a_lookup_touches_only_the_build_it_serves,an_environment_without_its_own_build_falls_back_to_the_legacy_build,an_uncached_digest_pulls_without_a_partition_selector,requested_environments_select_their_partition,imports_target_the_partition_their_manifest_binds,registering_a_flat_layout_finds_partitioned_buildsandlist_templates_reports_each_build_s_cache_partition.stamp_payload_written_before_partitions_is_a_legacy_job,stamp_payload_round_trips_an_environment_partition.twins_evict_independently_and_share_digest_protection,execute_one_on_a_twin_leaves_its_legacy_sibling,idle_template_eviction_takes_each_partition_of_a_digest,eviction_skips_a_digest_someone_holds,idle_template_eviction_skips_a_digest_someone_holds,a_base_snapshot_is_not_published_for_a_build_deleted_during_capture.a_pull_refuses_a_rowless_build_dir_and_deletes_nothing(now legacy and twin partitions),pull_refuses_retryably_before_counting_a_row_mid_eviction,a_twin_mid_eviction_holds_back_pulls_of_its_digest,release_partition_reads_the_manifest_then_the_metadata_binding,partition_probe_dirs_are_reaped_staging_dirs_not_builds,digest_dir_partition_reads_build_dirs_only.startup_adopts_legacy_layout_builds_of_another_environment_in_place(legacy-layout builds of a non-initial environment, some without a row and some under suspended sandboxes: nothing is deleted or moved, each keeps or regains its legacy row, and that environment's lookups resolve them with no pull),recovery_keeps_a_legacy_dir_bound_to_another_environment,recovery_keeps_a_legacy_layout_build_a_suspended_sandbox_depends_on.partition_binding_rejects_a_dir_bound_elsewhere,recovery_registers_a_twin_dir_in_its_own_partition(binding in the manifest or only inmetadata.json),a_recovered_twin_bound_only_in_its_metadata_refreshes_in_place,an_unreadable_metadata_binding_keeps_the_twin_dir,recovery_drops_a_partitioned_dir_bound_elsewhere,the_gc_tick_restores_a_rowless_twin_dir_in_its_own_partition,the_gc_tick_keeps_an_invalid_build_until_no_sandbox_depends_on_it,a_held_invalid_build_is_checked_against_a_fresh_dependent_answer.a_restored_build_s_snapshots_that_fail_to_register_are_retried,snapshots_startup_recovery_cant_register_are_retried_by_the_gc_tick,a_twin_s_snapshot_repair_reads_and_records_its_own_partition,snapshot_repairs_are_bounded_per_tick_and_rotate,a_hung_snapshot_repair_keeps_its_claim_and_permit,a_partial_snapshot_repair_is_published,a_snapshot_pruned_after_its_read_is_not_recorded,a_snapshot_of_a_build_without_a_row_is_not_recorded,startup_recovery_verifies_a_held_build_once_its_holder_lets_go.deleting_a_digest_removes_every_cached_partition,deleting_a_digest_removes_a_partition_without_a_row,deleting_a_digest_removes_a_partition_s_leftover_snapshots,deleting_a_digest_whose_dirs_cannot_be_listed_fails_retryably,delete_template_build_rejects_an_environment_selector.a_cached_only_lookup_skips_a_rowless_dir_for_a_verified_sibling(a rowless partial legacy directory next to a verified twin resolves to the twin; alone it'sNOT_FOUNDand nothing is pulled),a_cached_only_lookup_takes_an_exact_digest_and_no_org.base_snapshot_capture_boots_a_twin_under_its_environment,base_snapshot_reconcile_resolves_the_newest_build_of_its_own_partition,base_snapshot_reconcile_resolves_an_adopted_legacy_build,partition_reconciles_report_the_legacy_hash_and_label_twin_errors, and in sandbox-managera_capture_publishes_under_its_own_environment_s_cache_partition.a_capture_publishes_under_the_partition_template_manager_names(sandbox-manager: an adopted build's capture goes to the legacy partition, another environment's partition must be the capture's own, an unparseable one is refused),template_snapshot_refuses_its_partition_before_checkpointing(a refused partition fails before the sandbox enterscheckpointing).a_cloud_hypervisor_environment_build_fills_a_pool_from_its_partition(only a CH build bound to its environment is cached; a refill names it with its partition and touches it there),pools_skip_an_environment_build_whose_digest_has_a_legacy_row,pools_skip_a_build_the_environment_less_lookup_would_not_resolve(two environment rows of one digest, no legacy one),pools_skip_environment_rows_filed_outside_their_binding_partition(filed under another environment, and an unreadable binding),pool_refills_take_an_adopted_legacy_build,a_snapshot_in_one_partition_invalidates_only_that_partition_s_pools, and PR lifecycle: support CH Linux and Windows memory lifecycle and pools #1423'spool_refills_prefer_firecracker_and_admit_cloud_hypervisorwith each build filed in its binding's partition.codec_requests_name_the_partition_of_a_bound_sandbox_s_parent(sandbox-manager),restore_template_lookup_uses_validated_owner, which now also checks the restore lookup carries the snapshot's binding, and in node-manageran_incremental_stream_names_its_parent_s_received_uuid(a full stream names none; an incremental one names itsCLONE_UUID; aSNAPSHOTwithout one, or another first command, is an error) anda_receive_uses_the_candidate_the_stream_descends_from(the stream's parent wins over the binding's partition, an unknown parent isFailedPrecondition, a full stream takes the first candidate).template_catalog_reads_a_twin_s_metadata_from_its_partition,template_catalog_reads_an_adopted_build_s_metadata_from_its_legacy_dirandtemplate_catalog_lists_a_build_with_an_unreadable_cache_partition_from_its_legacy_dir(sandbox-manager),template_publication_prefers_each_name_s_legacy_build(node-ctl).partition_migration_keeps_the_checksum_releases_reverse,partition_migration_keeps_existing_rows_in_the_legacy_partition,partition_migrations_drop_child_rows_of_deleted_builds,partition_down_migration_keeps_only_legacy_rows.Not validated: a live rolling deploy in either direction.
Not covered
FailedPreconditionnaming the parent's received UUID when no cached build is that parent. The restore's template lookup is still a preference: it prefers the snapshot's binding but falls back to another partition of the digest without pulling, so a node holding only a sibling partition's build of that digest doesn't pull the stream's parent, and the restore keeps failing there. Twins only exist where a node admits an environment besides the initial one.release_partition), its directory's name, and the refusal of a rowless directory in the probed partition (probed_partition_refusal) are tested; the call site intry_pull_from, and the absence of a digest-wide check in the pull owner, aren't, since both read the fixed template root.snapshot_invalidates_pool_sandbox) and the partition it reads from a sandbox's execution (pool_sandbox_partition) are tested.{hash}, so on that node an initial-environment build of the same digest can't be cached beside it: that environment's lookup resolves the adopted legacy row and serves it, and a pull's fast path counts a row of the digest in any partition, so nothing pulls the other build. The adopted build leaves the slot when it's evicted or deleted, and the next pull files the digest under the partition its binding selects. A node only holds such a twin pair once twins can be published, which needs the control-plane change.Dependencies
Rollout
A node that admitted another execution environment before partitions existed holds that environment's builds in the legacy
{hash}layout, some of them under suspended sandboxes whose btrfs-send snapshots name them as their parent. This release adopts those builds in place: they keep their path, row, base snapshots and stamped received UUID, that environment's lookups resolve them through the legacy fallback, and nothing is re-pulled.Evidence: a Kind upgrade run that seeds legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment under part 5's image, suspends sandboxes whose btrfs-send deltas name one of them as their parent, then rolls the node to this change. The run used a revision of this commit that differs only in base-snapshot publication's partition (field 4 above, which it didn't exercise) and in being based on part 5's branch rather than main.
Result: on every node the adopted builds' directories, inodes, subvolume and received UUIDs, and rows are unchanged after the roll, now filed in the legacy partition; startup recovery confirms each against its row, with no directory dropped, no pull, no eviction and no error. A new create bound to that environment boots the adopted build without a pull, and the template catalog reads its metadata from the legacy directory. A sandbox left suspended on its node across the roll restores from its local snapshot, and one whose snapshot lives only in object storage is received against the adopted parent; both read back a marker written before the suspend. Rolling back to the previous part's image reverses the migration, since every row is in the legacy partition, serves the same builds, and restores, suspends and wakes work.
Before deploying to any environment that ran a non-initial environment, count, per node, the legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment and whether any sandbox depends on them, read-only. It's a check, not a blocker: adoption keeps those builds either way, and the count tells you what to watch after the roll.
Severity and risk
Severity: Low. The partitioning only matters for builds bound to a non-default execution environment.
Risk: Medium. The migrator rebuilds four tables while the previous pod still serves; that pod runs PR #1070 or later, whose writes succeed on the migrated schema. A pod of this release still serving while an older migrator reverses the database fails its queries until it exits. Startup recovery keeps legacy-layout builds bound to a non-initial environment where they are, and never removes the directory of an invalid build a sandbox depends on, or of one while sandbox-manager can't answer. Eviction now skips a digest whose claim is held, so a busy digest can stay cached a tick longer. Editing the migration later would break the rollback to PR #1070; the checksum test fails if the up SQL changes. Roll back by deploying PR #1070 or later: remove any
{hash}@{environment}build, snapshot or replaced directories first, since its check counts rows only, and rundb/README.md's read-only query to confirm every row is in the legacy partition. Its startup then reverses the migration with no database step, and adopted builds, which never moved, are served as before. A database with environment-partition rows, or a rollback past PR #1070, needs the manual procedure indocs/execution-environments.md.Docs
db/README.md: "Template cache partition migration" covers when a rollback to a release that doesn't bundle the migration needs no database step, the directories to remove first, a read-only query for the rows that make it refuse, why the SQL must stay byte-identical, and that a release bundling it keeps its unbundled-list entry, inert.docs/execution-environments.md: a new "Template caches per environment" section covers the partition layout, how a build's binding picks its partition, in-place adoption of legacy-layout builds bound to another environment, startup recovery and its dependent-sandbox guard, the pull rule, the digest claim and the GC tick's check as they apply to partitioned builds, the lookup preference,TemplateFullInfo.cache_partitionand the catalog's metadata read,DeleteTemplateBuildacross partitions, per-partition base snapshots and pool invalidation, partition-aware pool selection, deploy order and mixed-version behavior including the codecs and the delta transfers an older template-manager's unmarkedcached_onlyanswers rule out, and the known limits until the cluster side carries partitions. Its rollback procedure: a release from the withdrawn interval reverses the migration itself; sandbox-manager stays stopped from step 1 until the older template-manager runs, so it can't publish a partitioned snapshot in between; step 2 says btrfs-send snapshots encoded against a partitioned parent are lost on rollback, and runs the read-only migration-history checks, so a database the procedure doesn't cover stops it before anything is removed; step 3 also lists{hash}@{environment}.replaced.{uuid}directories and tells subvolumes from plain directories; step 4 runsdownonce, and a seconddownfails at the baseline's rollback floor. The registration section notes that a registration bound to another environment's partition is a separate node-local build.proto/template/manager/v1/manager.proto:TemplateRef.environmentdocuments the lookup preference, the latest-build tie-breaks, the response binding andDeleteTemplateBuild's rejection of it;TemplateFullInfo.cache_partitiondocuments that a build's directory follows its row's partition, not its binding;DeleteIdleTemplatedocumentsABORTEDwhile another owner holds one of its builds.AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the partitioning changes in template-manager, sandbox-manager, node-manager and node-ctl, their tests and the documentation changes, ran the validation, and drafted this description.