A group now has two lease lanes (migration 6600): `history` works the ranges the bounds hand out, `tail` the tail
planner's, each with its own holder, window, snapshot and takeover redo, so a thread on the tail never wades
through a group's history and a held group's tail isn't stuck behind it. The edge puts `--tail-threads`
(EDGE_TAIL_THREADS, 1 of 2+ by default) of its threads on the tail lane; the group routes take `?lane=`. The
lease order within a lane alternates the group with the most planned articles and the longest unheld one. The
takeover redo puts back only the lane's ranges the window did after the snapshot, and a group whose last range
is held by a holder gone quiet can be taken over.
`coordinator:status` prints the catalog's room, the ranges by band, the last hour's rates, the held groups with
their snapshots and the phase-2 backlogs. `tests/e2e` runs the real edge-node binary against the node API: the
corpus-fill race, a failed stream and the restart that restores the snapshot, a restart without the snapshot
file, a takeover (STREAM_CHUNK_WAIT_MINUTES is a setting now). CI builds the binary before the tests.
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The corpus fill claims chunks of a leased range ahead of the leased run (the
prefetcher's claim keys are per range and chunk), stores them in the corpus
only, and the run leaves them there. The stream looked at the corpus once per
chunk and then polled the spool only: when the store came seconds after that
look, the stream waited its whole hour and the worker lost the group and its
open batch (three groups on 2026-10-27, LOG.md (118)). Now the wait loop checks
both.
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A worker thread leases a group and takes its ranges in article order through
one carried window; the coordinator keeps one cursor a group (group_leases,
migration 6500) and hands out the next range, the rules and nothing about
where the chunks are: the range stream serves a stored range's chunks from the
corpus file and a live one's from the spool. The window's snapshot (bincode:
the frontier, the open files, releases and albums, the upload numbers, the
batch-counter table) goes to the coordinator every EDGE_SNAPSHOT_MINUTES and
when the group is given back, and the next holder restores it; a takeover
after LEASE_TTL_SECONDS plans the ranges from the snapshot's article again.
The prefetcher runs ahead of held groups' cursors and skips chunks the corpus
has. LEASE_MIN_PRIORITY..LEASE_MAX_PRIORITY bound what is leased. edge-node
holds groups by default; --ranges keeps the old per-range path.
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Each release chunk is a release inserted once: release_key the SHA-1 of
the identity, the owner group and the first article (deterministic; no
numbering under a group lock), identity_key the identity's SHA-1 bytes,
poster_id and group_set_id through catalog_refs (cached per process),
source as a code (weak-stem added), the name into release_texts. A
finished release's candidates are claimable at once; a provisional tail
release is finished by a later chunk of its key, a finished one sent again
is left alone. Gone: joins into earlier releases and across groups, key
numbering, the group lock, the fragment merger. Interim: chunks, counts
and samples keyed by ranges.block_id, a range without a block gets one.
Readers follow: search (posters and group_sets joined, words through
release_texts, posters by id, source by code), the par2 merger, the
sidecar folder, the judge's scraped rule, the spot inspector, the spotter,
the NZB service, releases:regroup, edge:bench. Tests insert fixtures
through tests/functional/helpers/releases.ts; the suites pass again.
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Eweka sends some ranges' compressed XOVER truncated, the same bytes
every time, while the plain reply is whole (a.b.models 3317215-3367214:
1,675,600 bytes that don't inflate, twice; 50,000 lines plain;
tools/false_end.ts). Not a false end of reply. The worker's corrupt
report removed the chunk and the range was fetched again, with the same
bytes: one range was reported 540 times. (Before this morning's change
the inflate check waited for more data until the 10-minute timeout,
like voyager 1's 'chunk never answered' ranges.)
A reported chunk's start goes into ranges.plain_chunks; the prefetcher
fetches those over one connection without XFEATURE COMPRESS GZIP
(NntpPool.usePlain, opened on demand) and deflates them here. A plain
chunk reported again sets the range aside (status failed, error). The
capture (edge:bench --capture) fetches such a chunk plain too.
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End to end on the workstation (coordinator:run, the API, edge:node, real
NNTP): a.b.e-book.french and a.b.cd.image.playstation2.dvdiso ranges.
- Prefetcher: every connection takes the next missing chunk (leased
ranges first, in order); one connection per range (~26k lines/s) kept
the worker waiting
- executable rule: releases of bare executables (malware floods named
after films and software) are dropped; they were 92% of the catalog rows
of the test ranges, 21% of the segments
- fragments per file (details once) and gzipped batch bodies; the JSON
limit (1 MB by default) raised to 256 MB, empty strings kept (a rule
count's key is '')
- release_chunks.batch_from is a bigint (boneless article numbers)
- tests get their own database; edge:bench --store times BatchStore:
1.3 s for a boneless range (1.24 ms per release chunk)
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- groups:add / ranges:plan / nodes:create / coordinator:run commands
- the node API: lease, the range's chunks as one framed stream from the
spool, batches, heartbeat, finish, release (node guard, token per node)
- edge:node: needs COORDINATOR_URL and NODE_TOKEN only (placeholders for
the rest), posts a batch every 10 chunks, gives its range back on SIGTERM
- releases are gathered per batch: 1.04 chunk rows per release at 10
chunks per batch (1.35 when built per XOVER chunk)
- partitions are checked per batch instead of remembered
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