- Extract file_save_to_disk() helper (replaces 4x duplicated disk-save boilerplate)
- Extract receive_incremental_check() shared helper (deduplicates STATUS_CHECK
handling between server.c single-threaded and multiprocessing.c multi-threaded paths)
- Break receive_files() into receive_chunk() and receive_manifest() sub-handlers
- Add incremental sync test case to test.py
- Rebase onto main
- New STATUS_CHECK protocol status (value 6)
- Client sends path + size + mtime; server replies OK (skip) or NEXT (send)
- config.h/c: use_incremental field sent/received over wire
- file.c/h: file_send_single_calls_no_path helper for incremental path
- client_cli.c: --incremental flag
- client_send.c: per-file check before send in both single and chunk paths
- server.c: STATUS_CHECK handling in receive_files()
- multiprocessing.c: STATUS_CHECK handling in receive_thread()
- test.py: incremental sync test case
- c-reviewer: memory/thread safety, style review for C11 code
- test-writer: unit test generation using custom test framework
- cmake-expert: CMake build system management
- perf-analyst: transfer pipeline performance analysis
- protocol-designer: wire protocol design and extension
- doc-generator: API docs, protocol specs, usage examples
Feature changes across 15 files:
- -a/--archive: enables -c -m -M (no -s, which slows transfers)
- -n/--dry-run: scan + print without connecting or transferring
- -p <port>: custom SSH port (passed as -p to ssh via execvp)
- --exclude <pattern>: glob-based filename filtering in scanner
- --delete: sender collects file manifest; receiver deletes unlisted files
Protocol: added STATUS_MANIFEST, use_delete field in Config wire format.
New utilities: glob_match(), delete_extras() with recursive directory walk.
Scanner: accepts exclude patterns; skips matching entries.
SSH transport: switched from execlp to execvp for dynamic port arg.
Server + multiprocessing: handle STATUS_MANIFEST in both single and
multithreaded receive paths.
Builds clean, all 7 tests pass.
Replaced one-shot ZSTD_compress / ZSTD_decompress with streaming
API (ZSTD_compressStream2 + ZSTD_decompressStream) in both
data_compress and data_decompress. Interface unchanged.
Prepares for true streaming transfer where compression can be
interleaved with transmission.
- SSH ControlMaster auto with ControlPath for connection reuse
- -z as alias for -c (compression)
- --progress flag showing transfer rate in send_files
- Fixed unused-result warning on write() in transport_ssh.c
- Reduced test data from 50MB to 25MB (test.py)
- Increased SSH socketpair buffer to 1MB via setsockopt (transport_ssh.c)
- Made chunk size configurable: new Config field, --chunk-size CLI flag,
sent over wire, and used in scanner instead of DESIRED_CHUNK_SIZE
- Fixed DESIRED_CHUNK_SIZE macro parentheses (chunk.h)
- Merge io.h/c back into protocol.h/c
- Change send_data to take Data* argument
- Remove redundant file_load_data from send_chunk
- Move compression into file_send_single_calls
- Move file_receive from multiprocessing.c to file.c
- Add check_ssh_localhost() that tests SSH connectivity and symlinks
fastsync-server into PATH if needed
- Add SSH_CASES with single-threaded, multithreaded, and compression tests
- Support no_server mode in run_single_test for SSH tests
- Skip SSH tests gracefully when SSH/localhost/fastsync-server unavailable
- Replace send()/recv() with read()/write() + io_set_fds() for fd abstraction
- Add client_connect_ssh() via socketpair + fork/exec; reap child in client_disconnect()
- Add server --stdio flag for SSH invocation
- Replace handle_arg() with rsync-style positional args (fastsync <src> <dest>)
- Add SSH vs TCP auto-detection via is_remote_dest()
- Add TransportType and ssh_destination to Config, fix uninitialized fields in
config_receive() (pre-existing multithreaded crash)
- Sender threads now wait for server STATUS_OK before disconnecting
- Add --help, error handling for sendfile+SSH combos
- Add pre-flight checks and Posix Args test case to test.py
- Add test_config_ssh_dest() unit test
Conflicts resolved:
- config_create signature: added both use_metadata and use_sendfile params
- config_send/config_receive: wire protocol includes both use_metadata and use_sendfile
- client.c: config_create call updated, arg parsing includes both -M/--preserve and -f/--sendfile
- test_config.c: all three config_create calls updated
- file_send_sendfile: use file->data->size instead of removed struct stat
- Remove FileReceive struct; use File everywhere with nullable FileMetadata*
- Remove struct stat from File; file size lives in Data->size (data_create_reserve)
- Add FileMetadata struct (mode, uid, gid, mtime) sent conditionally over wire
- Add -M / --preserve flag to client
- Restore permissions, ownership, timestamps on disk write
- Wire format uses per-file present flag for metadata (zero overhead when off)
- netem_apply now calls netem_reset() first to clear any leftover qdisc
- Rsync daemon startup polls TCP port instead of fixed sleep
- Dest dir cleared at start of run
Previously rsync ran as a direct local copy (rsync -aH source/ dest/), bypassing the
loopback interface entirely. This meant tc netem latency/loss/rate limits were never
applied to rsync, making the comparison fundamentally unfair.
Now rsync goes through the network via an rsync daemon on localhost:
rsync --daemon --no-detach --config=rsyncd.conf
rsync rsync://localhost:PORT/source/ dest/
The daemon is started before rsync tests and killed afterward. Both the rsync client
and FastSync client run under the same systemd-run disk I/O limits when applicable.
- Replace single 'Throttled' suite with profiles: Unlimited, LAN (default),
WAN (--wan flag)
- LAN: 1000mbit, 1ms ±0.1ms delay, 0% loss
- WAN: 100mbit, 50ms ±10ms delay, 1% loss (with --wan)
- Add jitter and packet loss to tc netem config
- Add rsync -aH (archive) and rsync -aHz (archive+compress) as comparison
- Fix verify_transfer to take the received directory directly
- --no-unlimited, --no-lan to skip profiles
- 36 tests total (10 FastSync + 2 rsync across 3 profiles)
- load_files_multithreaded skips file_load_data when sendfile is active
- -f + -m works: sendfile bypasses loader, sender uses sendfile directly
- -f combined with -c or -s prints error and exits with rc=1
- Add Sendfile + Multithreading test case
- Add file_send_sendfile() using sendfile() syscall to send file
content directly from fd to socket, bypassing userspace memory
- Add use_sendfile field to Config struct (default false)
- Add -f / --sendfile flag parsing in client.c
- sendfile path in send_chunk() used when -f is set without -c or -s
- send_files_multithreaded() falls back to single-threaded when
sendfile is enabled (loader pipeline becomes unnecessary)
- Add Sendfile (-f) test case to test.py
- Replace env var control (FASTSYNC_SOURCE_DIR, FASTSYNC_DEST_DIR,
FASTSYNC_SAVE_TO_DISK) with explicit --source-dir, --dest-dir,
--save-to-disk CLI arguments
- Keep env vars as fallback for backward compatibility
- Fix test.py: split '-c 0' into separate args ['-c', '0']
- Fix test.py: throttled suite failed because systemd-run didn't
inherit env vars; now all settings are passed as CLI args
- Add env_name to exception/timeout result entries for correct display
- Fix scanner: when chunk fills up mid-directory, save DIR handle so
remaining files in that directory are not skipped (pre-existing bug)
- Fix -c -s: add STATUS_CHUNK to protocol, send it before chunk data,
handle it on the server side for both single and multithreaded paths
- Extract chunk_serialize/chunk_deserialize from chunk_compress/decompress
- Remove dead declarations (file_receive_from_buffer, etc.)
- Fix memory leak in receive_file_receive (free -> data_destroy)
- test.py generates ~50 MB of test data across bulk files
- All 8 integration tests + 7 unit tests pass
- test.py generates its own test files in test_data/ (small.txt, medium.txt,
binary.bin, nested subtree)
- source and dest directories configurable via --source-dir / --dest-dir
- verifies all transferred files match originals byte-for-byte after each test
- waits for server to finish before verification (fixes race in multithreaded)
- all test data lives under test_data/ and is cleaned up unless --keep-data
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