undo hangs

[Matthew Dillon]

:I munged up a file, and wasn't able to retrieve the last version using
:undo on a Hammer volume:
:
:Do this on leaf:
:
:undo -o local.css.old /usr/pkg/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/local.css
:
:The process does not return:
:
:root    23659  0.0  0.0  1552  628   0  IL+   7:30PM   0:00.00   undo -o
:local.css.old /usr/pkg/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/local.css
:
:Not sure if I just missed something...  I was able to retrieve the file
:from a snapshot.

    It's kinda a bug in undo.  Basically undo is synthesizing ALL the
    transaction ids ever used to update the file.  But some of those
    transaction ids bisect the directory entry and inode so the
    directory entry might exist and the inode might not.

    In the case where the inode does not exist HAMMER synthesizes a fake
    one and unfortunately I chose the FIFO type (as in 'mkfifo' style) :-).
    Bad choice on my fault.  So undo winds up trying to open a FIFO and
    of course hangs until you hit ^C since there is nobody on the other
    side of the FIFO.

    If someone would like a little mini project, just add a stat() or fstat()
    call in the undo code and don't try to open() files that aren't regular
    files.  Plus generate a warning to stderr for that transaction id.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>