There may be considerable lag between being fully written and being committed
when using the flush_if_sec feature. Additionally, this is a step toward
listing and viewing recordings before they're fully written. That's a
considerable delay: 60 to 120 seconds for the first recording of a run,
0 to 60 seconds for subsequent recordings.
These recordings aren't yet included in the information returned by
/api/?days=true. They probably should be, but small steps.
I want to start having the db.rs version augment this with the uncommitted
recordings, and it's nice to have the separation of the raw db vs augmented
versions. Also, this fits with the general theme of shrinking db.rs a bit.
I had to put the raw video_sample_entry_id into the rows rather than
the video_sample_entry Arc. In hindsight, this is better anyway: the common
callers don't need to do the btree lookup and arc clone on every row. I think
I'd originally done it that way only because I was quite new to rust and
didn't understand that db could be used from within the row callback given
that both borrows are immutable.
This was considering them as 0, so it would under-delete until the next flush
them delete all at once. That effectively doubled the number of bytes not yet
deleted as they're first transferred to garbage, flushed again, then unlinked.
When list_oldest_recordings was called twice with no intervening flush, it
returned the same rows twice. This led to trying to delete it twice and all
following flushes failing with a "no such recording x/y" message. Now, return
each row only once, and track how many bytes have been returned.
I think dir.rs's logic is still wrong for how many bytes to delete when
multiple recordings are flushed at once (it ignores the bytes added by the
first when computing the bytes to delete for the second), but this is
progress.
I mistakenly thought these had to be monomorphized. (The FnOnce still
does, until rust-lang/rfcs#1909 is implemented.) Turns out this way works
fine. It should result in less compile time / code size, though I didn't check
this.
As noted in schema.sql, this can be used for disambiguation. It also may be
useful in diagnosing data integrity problems.
Also, sneak in a couple minor improvements: better diagnostics in a couple
places, fix to 1->2 upgrade procedure.
This improves the practicality of having many streams (including the doubling
of streams by having main + sub streams for each camera). With these tuned
properly, extra streams don't cause any extra write cycles in normal or error
cases. Consider the worst case in which each RTSP session immediately sends a
single frame and then fails. Moonfire retries every second, so this would
formerly cause one commit per second per stream. (flush_if_sec=0 preserves
this behavior.) Now the commits can be arbitrarily infrequent by setting
higher values of flush_if_sec.
WARNING: this isn't production-ready! I hacked up dir.rs to make tests pass
and "moonfire-nvr run" work in the best-case scenario, but it doesn't handle
errors gracefully. I've been debating what to do when writing a recording
fails. I considered "abandoning" the recording then either reusing or skipping
its id. (in the latter case, marking the file as garbage if it can't be
unlinked immediately). I think now there's no point in abandoning a recording.
If I can't write to that file, there's no reason to believe another will work
better. It's better to retry that recording forever, and perhaps put the whole
directory into an error state that stops recording until those writes go
through. I'm planning to redesign dir.rs to make this happen.
It should reduce compile time / memory usage to put quite a bit of the code
into a separate crate. I also intend to limit visibility of some things to
only within the db crate, but that's for a future change. This is the smallest
move that will compile.
Scott Lamb