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Summary

  • internal/fsops/backend.goBackend interface (12 methods) abstracting filesystem operations for local and future remote backends
  • internal/fsops/types.go — value types (FileInfo, LstatInfo with degraded-identity FileIDErr, WalkEntry, WalkOptions, StatfsResult, etc.)
  • internal/fsops/errors.go — sentinel errors (ErrNoFilesystemAccess)
  • internal/fsops/noop.go — noop backend for instances without filesystem access
  • internal/fsops/pool.go — pool resolver (instance ID → local or noop backend)
  • internal/fsops/local/ — local backend implementation + platform-specific Statfs
  • docs/remote-backend-design.md — SSH/SFTP-native remote backend design (supersedes feat(agent): add remote helper design doc and NDJSON proto types #1913's deployable-agent approach); linked from docs/architecture.md

Surface is intentionally minimal: every method has a caller in the callsite migration (#1915). Batch/diagnostic methods dropped per review return with the remote backend PR that consumes them.

No callsite changes — services still use os.* directly. This is the foundation that subsequent PRs will wire into services.

Test plan

  • go build ./... and GOOS=windows go build ./internal/fsops/... — clean
  • go test -race -count=1 ./internal/fsops/... — all pass
  • make precommit — clean

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Adds local filesystem access with per-instance backend selection and unavailable-access handling.
    • Supports metadata inspection, directory traversal, disk-space reporting, filesystem capability detection, and hardlink/reflink tree operations.
  • Bug Fixes / Diagnostics
    • Provides clearer errors when filesystem access is unavailable or operations are canceled.
  • Documentation
    • Documents filesystem backend architecture and planned remote access support.
  • Tests
    • Adds comprehensive coverage for filesystem operations, traversal, tree handling, pooling, and cancellation.

…solver

Backend interface (17 methods) abstracts filesystem operations so
services can work against local or remote backends. Local backend is
a thin adapter over os.*/hardlinktree/reflinktree/hardlink/fsutil.
Pool resolves instance ID to the appropriate backend based on the
instance's filesystem access configuration.
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Adds the internal/fsops package with typed filesystem contracts, a local OS-backed implementation, platform-specific statistics, a noop fallback, per-instance backend pooling, sentinel errors, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Filesystem abstraction with local and noop backends

Layer / File(s) Summary
Core types and backend contract
internal/fsops/types.go, internal/fsops/backend.go, internal/fsops/errors.go
Defines filesystem metadata, traversal, space, removal, and tree-result types. Adds the context-aware Backend interface and ErrNoFilesystemAccess.
Local inspection and traversal
internal/fsops/local/local.go, internal/fsops/local/local_test.go
Implements and tests stat, lstat, directory reads, streamed walks, filtering, cancellation, filesystem comparison, file identity, and metadata conversion.
Local mutation and filesystem capabilities
internal/fsops/local/local.go, internal/fsops/local/statfs_unix.go, internal/fsops/local/statfs_windows.go, internal/fsops/local/local_test.go, pkg/sharedextents/sharedextents_windows_test.go
Implements and tests directory mutation, hardlink and reflink trees, rollback cleanup, capability reporting, and platform-specific Statfs.
Noop fallback and backend pooling
internal/fsops/noop.go, internal/fsops/pool.go, internal/fsops/pool_test.go
Adds unavailable-filesystem behavior and selects local or noop backends per instance. Tests cover selection, missing instances, and noop errors.
Architecture and remote backend design
docs/architecture.md, docs/remote-backend-design.md, .gitignore
Documents the fsops module and planned SSH/SFTP backend. Adds the design document to .gitignore.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 27bf6

This PR adds a filesystem abstraction and documents the future remote backend, but the design still leaves first-connection SSH host-key verification vulnerable to MITM and has ambiguous identity and capability contracts. These issues could lead to unsafe connections or incorrect remote-operation behavior in follow-up work, so fixes or explicit owner acceptance are needed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant Pool
  participant InstanceStore
  participant Backend
  participant Filesystem

  Caller->>Pool: GetBackend(ctx, instanceID)
  Pool->>InstanceStore: Load instance configuration
  InstanceStore-->>Pool: Return filesystem access setting
  Pool-->>Caller: Return local or noop Backend
  Caller->>Backend: Perform filesystem operation
  Backend->>Filesystem: Inspect or mutate filesystem
  Filesystem-->>Backend: Return metadata, result, or error
  Backend-->>Caller: Return operation result
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🐰 Paths now hop through backend gates,
Local trees link and clean their states.
Noop paths report access denied,
Pools return the backend assigned.
Tests keep each filesystem trail aligned.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main changes: the fsops Backend interface, local implementation, and pool resolver.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly summarizes the fsops foundation and testing, but it omits the issue reference, checklist, and AI disclosure.
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internal/fsops/pool_test.go (1)

127-172: ⚡ Quick win

Refactor noop error checks into a table-driven test.

This block is repetitive; a table-driven loop will be easier to extend as Backend methods evolve.

♻️ Suggested structure
 func TestNoopBackend_AllMethodsError(t *testing.T) {
 	b := noopBackend{}
 	ctx := context.Background()
 
-	_, err := b.Stat(ctx, "/x")
-	require.ErrorIs(t, err, ErrNoFilesystemAccess)
-	...
-	require.ErrorIs(t, b.HealthCheck(ctx), ErrNoFilesystemAccess)
+	checks := []struct {
+		name string
+		call func() error
+	}{
+		{"Stat", func() error { _, err := b.Stat(ctx, "/x"); return err }},
+		{"StatBatch", func() error { _, _, err := b.StatBatch(ctx, []string{"/x"}); return err }},
+		{"Lstat", func() error { _, err := b.Lstat(ctx, "/x"); return err }},
+		{"LstatBatch", func() error { _, _, err := b.LstatBatch(ctx, []string{"/x"}); return err }},
+		{"ReadDir", func() error { _, _, err := b.ReadDir(ctx, "/x", 0); return err }},
+		{"WalkDir", func() error { _, err := b.WalkDir(ctx, "/x", WalkOptions{}); return err }},
+		{"Statfs", func() error { _, err := b.Statfs(ctx, "/x"); return err }},
+		{"SameFilesystem", func() error { _, err := b.SameFilesystem(ctx, "/x", "/y"); return err }},
+		{"FileID", func() error { _, _, err := b.FileID(ctx, "/x"); return err }},
+		{"MkdirAll", func() error { return b.MkdirAll(ctx, "/x", 0o755) }},
+		{"Remove", func() error { return b.Remove(ctx, "/x", RemoveOptions{}) }},
+		{"RemoveTree", func() error { return b.RemoveTree(ctx, nil) }},
+		{"HardlinkTree", func() error { _, err := b.HardlinkTree(ctx, nil); return err }},
+		{"ReflinkTree", func() error { _, err := b.ReflinkTree(ctx, nil); return err }},
+		{"SupportsReflink", func() error { _, _, err := b.SupportsReflink(ctx, "/x"); return err }},
+		{"HealthCheck", func() error { return b.HealthCheck(ctx) }},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range checks {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			require.ErrorIs(t, tc.call(), ErrNoFilesystemAccess)
+		})
+	}
 }
As per coding guidelines, “Prefer table-driven test cases in Go backend tests”.
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In `@internal/fsops/pool_test.go` around lines 127 - 172, The
TestNoopBackend_AllMethodsError test is repetitive; refactor it into a
table-driven test that iterates over a slice of cases describing each Backend
method, expected return values, and the expected error (ErrNoFilesystemAccess).
For each case include a human-readable name and the method identifier (Stat,
StatBatch, Lstat, LstatBatch, ReadDir, WalkDir, Statfs, SameFilesystem, FileID,
MkdirAll, Remove, RemoveTree, HardlinkTree, ReflinkTree, SupportsReflink,
HealthCheck) and invoke the method through the noopBackend instance inside a
subtest (t.Run) asserting require.ErrorIs on the returned error; use helper
closures in the table to unify methods with different signatures so the loop can
call them uniformly and keep the original TestNoopBackend_AllMethodsError
behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/fsops/backend.go`:
- Around line 21-95: The Backend interface is too large; break it into small
domain interfaces (≤5 methods) and compose a top-level Backend from them. Create
interfaces like MetadataReader (Stat, StatBatch, Lstat, LstatBatch, FileID),
DirectoryReader (ReadDir, WalkDir, Statfs, SameFilesystem), Mutator (MkdirAll,
Remove), TreeOperator (HardlinkTree, ReflinkTree, RemoveTree), and
Diagnostics/Capabilities (Info, HealthCheck, SupportsReflink) and replace the
monolithic Backend with type Backend interface { MetadataReader;
DirectoryReader; Mutator; TreeOperator; Diagnostics; Capabilities } so callers
can depend on narrow interfaces (update any uses of Backend, Stat, ReadDir,
HardlinkTree, etc., to the appropriate small interface).

In `@internal/fsops/local/local.go`:
- Around line 153-155: Guard against a nil DirEntry before dereferencing it in
the WalkDir callback: check if d == nil and handle/return the existing walkErr
(or continue) before calling d.Name() or accessing d.Type(); specifically update
the block that reads "name := d.Name()" (used with opts.SkipHidden and root) to
first if d == nil { return walkErr } (or otherwise safe-handle) and apply the
same nil-check pattern to the later section that inspects d.Type()/d.IsDir()
(the lines around the second occurrence you flagged). Ensure you reference and
preserve opts.SkipHidden, root and walkErr behavior when adding the nil guard so
logic and early-error handling remain correct.

In `@internal/fsops/pool.go`:
- Around line 40-50: Add explicit nil-guards in Pool.GetBackend: before calling
p.instanceStore.Get, check that p.instanceStore != nil and return a clear error
(e.g., "instanceStore not configured") if nil; likewise, when returning p.local
for instances with HasLocalFilesystemAccess, validate p.local != nil and return
a clear error (e.g., "local backend not configured") instead of returning nil.
Update error messages to include Pool and backend context so callers fail fast
and get actionable diagnostics.

In `@internal/fsops/types.go`:
- Around line 4-8: Update the package comment in types.go to stop claiming both
implementations exist; change the sentence referencing "Two implementations
exist: Local ... and Remote ..." to reflect that Local (and Noop) are
implemented and Remote is planned/future. Locate the paragraph that mentions the
Backend interface and the implementations (references: Backend, Local, Noop,
Remote) and reword it to say Local/Noop are the current implementations and
Remote is planned/future so integrators are not misled.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/fsops/pool_test.go`:
- Around line 127-172: The TestNoopBackend_AllMethodsError test is repetitive;
refactor it into a table-driven test that iterates over a slice of cases
describing each Backend method, expected return values, and the expected error
(ErrNoFilesystemAccess). For each case include a human-readable name and the
method identifier (Stat, StatBatch, Lstat, LstatBatch, ReadDir, WalkDir, Statfs,
SameFilesystem, FileID, MkdirAll, Remove, RemoveTree, HardlinkTree, ReflinkTree,
SupportsReflink, HealthCheck) and invoke the method through the noopBackend
instance inside a subtest (t.Run) asserting require.ErrorIs on the returned
error; use helper closures in the table to unify methods with different
signatures so the loop can call them uniformly and keep the original
TestNoopBackend_AllMethodsError behavior.
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NewPool now panics on nil instanceStore or local backend to fail fast
at construction time. Package comment updated to reflect that only
Local and Noop implementations exist (Remote is planned).
filepath.WalkDir passes d=nil when the root stat fails (documented in
io/fs.WalkDirFunc). Our pre-walk os.Stat check has a TOCTOU window
if the root is removed between the check and the walk's internal stat.
The local backend's RemoveAll does not support skipping paths. Return
an error instead of silently ignoring IgnorePaths, so callers get a
clear failure rather than deleting protected paths.
filepath.WalkDir return value was discarded. If the walk fails
(permission denied, I/O error), the channel now receives a final
entry with the error so callers know the walk didn't complete.
Context cancellation is not surfaced as an error.
Context cancellation now takes precedence over ErrNoFilesystemAccess
so callers get the correct error instead of a misleading "no
filesystem access" when the request was actually cancelled.
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develop's hardlinktree.Create now returns a Created handle recording
exactly what it made, and plan-wide Rollback was removed (#2282).
TreeCreateResult carries the created files/dirs and RemoveTree takes
the result instead of the plan.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/fsops/local/local.go`:
- Around line 117-126: Handle the error returned by e.Info() in the surrounding
ReadDir implementation instead of discarding it. Propagate the error so ReadDir
does not report success with incomplete mode metadata, while preserving the
existing DirEntry construction when metadata retrieval succeeds.

In `@internal/fsops/noop.go`:
- Line 20: Split the 17-method Backend contract into focused read, mutation,
tree-operation, capability, and diagnostic interfaces, keeping each at no more
than five methods. Update the noopBackend assertion and all consumers to depend
on the smallest required composed interfaces, without adding a compatibility
shim or retaining the monolithic Backend interface.

In `@internal/fsops/types.go`:
- Around line 8-9: Update the comment near the Backend interface to state that
services currently continue using os.* directly and that Backend is preparation
for future service integration. Preserve the existing no-callsite-change scope.
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… doc

ReadDir silently fell back to type bits when e.Info() failed, reporting
success with wrong mode metadata. Entries that vanish between ReadDir
and Info are skipped as the race they are; any other Info error now
fails the call. The package doc also claimed services already use the
interface — callsite migration happens separately.
…paths

When a walk caller asks for FileID/Nlinks, an entry whose identity
lookup fails now carries the error instead of posing as a file with no
links. Nonexistent-path tests build under t.TempDir instead of raw
POSIX absolutes.
…RolledBack flag

WalkDir's IgnoreDirNames matched exact case while the orphanscan walker it
replaces used EqualFold — a $recycle.bin or @eadir case variant would be
descended into and its contents surfaced as orphan delete candidates.

TreeCreateResult.RolledBack was set unconditionally on Create failure, but
hardlinktree/reflinktree report rollback failure only inside the wrapped
error, so the flag could claim a rollback succeeded while files remain on
disk (the #2282 scenario). Nothing reads it yet; remove it until a caller
needs a real rollback status.

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Merge is clean against current develop and the #2287 rollback adaptation is correct. Nothing below is architectural.

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Closed 1913 since the code isnt needed for now with the current approach and added docs/remote-backend-design.md to this PR

…ec dialect in v1

Replaces the open question with a position: Windows remotes ride the
existing probe with no special-casing. Win32-OpenSSH covers the core SFTP
ops; extension support (statvfs, hardlink) is version-dependent so the
probe decides, and a missing hardlink extension surfaces as degraded mode.
The exec tier never lights (cmd/PowerShell fails the GNU probe); a
PowerShell dialect stays a possible later addition. NTFS's 16-byte file ID
is noted in the identity section as further support for the opaque wire
form.
- ReadDir loses maxEntries/truncated: every caller passes 0
- WalkOptions.WantNlinks merges into WantFileID: one behavior, two flags
- NewPool drops nil-arg panics: wiring is main.go, a nil deref is as loud
- statfs_windows drops no-op unsafe.Pointer casts on already-uint64 args

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docs/remote-backend-design.md (1)

32-37: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for identity lookup failures. Assert that Lstat returns metadata with FileIDErr and WalkDir emits the entry with FileIDErr instead of aborting the scan.

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In `@docs/remote-backend-design.md` around lines 32 - 37, Add tests covering
identity lookup failures: verify Lstat returns metadata containing FileIDErr,
and WalkDir emits the affected entry with FileIDErr while continuing rather than
aborting the scan.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/architecture.md`:
- Line 11: Update docs/architecture.md:11 to describe migration of service
callsites from os.* to fsops.Backend as planned or pending, rather than
completed. Update docs/remote-backend-design.md:10-11 with matching future-state
wording and explicitly identify the pending callsite migration; keep both
documents consistent.

In `@docs/remote-backend-design.md`:
- Around line 96-97: Update the SSH host-key handling described for POST
/instances/{id}/ssh-test so the first-seen key remains ephemeral until explicit
TOFU confirmation or a preconfigured fingerprint is supplied; only then persist
or enforce the key, while retaining the prohibition on InsecureIgnoreHostKey.
- Around line 84-89: Specify and implement validation for all
torrent/API-derived paths before SFTP use, rejecting absolute or
UNC/drive-letter forms where relative paths are required, leading separators,
and any .. component; explicitly define the permitted absolute remote-path
representation. Update remote exec construction to avoid shell interpolation and
safely terminate options or use equivalent argument handling for find, stat,
xargs, rm, and cp. Add coverage for traversal, option-like paths, and shell
metacharacters.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@docs/remote-backend-design.md`:
- Around line 32-37: Add tests covering identity lookup failures: verify Lstat
returns metadata containing FileIDErr, and WalkDir emits the affected entry with
FileIDErr while continuing rather than aborting the scan.
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…end time

Opaque comparable fixed-size form is the only shape that covers a mixed-OS
pair (unix identity is 16 bytes, Windows up to 24 — no lossless packing in
either direction). Timing follows drop-until-needed: the type is already
shared on develop so the ripple is constant, and nothing serializes
identity until the remote backend exists. Consumers survive unchanged
(equality, map keys, IsZero); churn is constructors and test literals.
…exec safety

architecture.md and the design doc described the callsite migration as
done — it lands in #1915; both now say so. The design doc also firms up
two requirements for the remote backend: the first-seen host key stays
ephemeral until the user confirms the fingerprint (or it matches a
preconfigured one), and a Path and Command Safety section pins boundary
validation for torrent/API-derived paths plus no-shell-interpolation and
option-terminated exec construction, with the traversal/metacharacter
test obligation on the remote-backend PR.
A Sys()-less regular-file FileInfo makes hardlink.GetFileID fail on every
platform, so the conversion path is testable without a seam: FileIDErr is
set, FileID stays zero, and the metadata survives. The WalkDir inline path
sets FileIDErr from the same call; injecting a failure there would need a
mockable seam that isn't worth the indirection.
The header claimed the interface is exactly syscall-level ops, but the
tree operations are high-level create-and-rollback units.
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@com6056 - Can you rereview and close out resolved items?
@Audionut - Can you run your review scripts on this please?

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Two contract gaps vs develop surfaced in #1915 review:

WalkDir emitted per-file Info() failures as entry.Err, which consumers
treat as walk-fatal — one unreadable file discarded a whole dirscan
searchee or an orphan-scan root, where develop skipped the file. Such
entries are now skipped, so Err carries only enumeration-level failures
and the consumers' perm-skip/else-fatal handling matches develop again.

Stat returned bare FileInfo, so callers needing followed-symlink identity
(dirscan's already-seeding index, root-level single-file searchees) had
only Lstat and silently dropped symlinked torrent data. Stat now returns
LstatInfo with the target's FileID/Nlinks, degrading via FileIDErr like
Lstat. Costs one extra file-open per Windows stat, which develop's fileid
path already paid.
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Findings

  • High — host-dependent path semantics. internal/fsops/backend.go leaves path manipulation to host filepath, while the remote-backend design requires slash-delimited remote paths. On Windows, filepath.IsAbs("/data") is false, so Windows-hosted qui cannot safely operate Unix remotes. Define host-independent backend path semantics before callsite migration.
  • Medium — cancellation cannot interrupt mutations or rollback them. internal/fsops/local/local.go checks cancellation only before recursive removal and tree operations. Mid-operation cancellation continues mutations; reusing the cancelled context for RemoveTree then prevents rollback.
  • Medium — portable error semantics cover only Stat. internal/fsops/backend.go standardizes fs.ErrNotExist only for Stat. Remote callers also depend on portable not-found and permission errors from Lstat, WalkDir, and Remove; define mappings and contract tests.
  • Medium — SFTP-only hardlink conflict handling is undefined. docs/remote-backend-design.md advertises hardlink-tree creation despite unavailable inode/nlink identity. Existing targets need verification to distinguish an idempotent same-link from conflicting content.
  • Low — oversized interface. internal/fsops/backend.go has 12 methods, violating the repo's ≤5-method rule. Split consumer-specific interfaces.

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Targeted race tests, go build ./..., diff check, and Linux/macOS/FreeBSD cross-builds passed. make lint found zero branch issues but failed on the unchanged pkg/sharedextents/sharedextents_windows_test.go, which still uses reflinktree.Create's old signature.

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Re-review done, all eight of my threads check out and I've replied on each. Resolving is gated to you or a maintainer, so close them out whenever. I ran the round through build, vet, the fsops tests, and windows plus darwin cross-builds on the head and it's all clean, and the new cancellation test really does fail if you disable the guards, so it earns its keep.

One code item, and it's small either way: Stat's followed-target identity has zero consumers. dirscan/fileid_index.go:87 and scanSingleFile on #1915 still call Lstat, which is exactly the symlink regression soup flagged there, and those are the only two Lstat callsites whose semantics moved vs develop (the rest mirror os.Lstat), so wiring those two to Stat closes it completely, the API and its test are already sitting there. The alternative is making identity opt-in on Stat the way WalkOptions.WantFileID works, because right now every Stat caller is an existence or IsDir check, and on Windows the missing-files scan pays a CreateFile per file for a FileID nobody reads. GetFileID opens a handle for two GetFileInformationByHandleEx calls, and develop's missing_files.go was a bare os.Stat that never went near the fileid path, so it's new cost rather than the cost develop already paid.

On docs/remote-backend-design.md, the architecture and the tier model match what we agreed and the op mapping reads accurately against the slimmed interface. Nothing below is a merge gate, these are doc lines I'd add or decide now while it's cheap, from the security side I signed up for:

  • Symlink policy for destructive remote ops. Path validation stops .. but a symlinked directory bypasses it entirely: an SFTP-tier recursive delete that walks with stat instead of lstat descends the link and deletes outside the tree, while the exec tier's rm -rf -- doesn't descend, so the two tiers would also diverge. Commit to lstat-driven recursion, never descend a link, remove the link itself only, and state the tier-parity requirement.
  • Host-key change after pinning. First contact is handled well, but a later mismatch is the case that matters: fail closed, no automatic re-pin, show both fingerprints, require the same explicit confirmation as first contact, and never fall back to TOFU because the pin is missing.
  • The pinned fingerprint should get the same AAD binding as the private key when the schema lands in feat(models): add SSH/helper schema and HasFilesystemAccess helper #1917. The fingerprint decides who you talk to, and as a plain column a DB write can downgrade the pin, which makes the key encryption moot.
  • Path semantics, +1 to Audionut's first finding: the doc requires slash-delimited remote paths while backend.go:17 leaves path manipulation to host filepath in service code, and on a Windows host filepath.IsAbs("/data") is false and Join inserts backslashes. That's the one real disagreement between the doc and the shipped interface, and it's cheapest to decide before the callsite migration bakes it in.
  • Small one: the frontend section wants a degraded-mode indicator on SFTP-only instances, but capabilities are probe-per-connect and deliberately not persisted, so nothing says where the indicator reads from between SSH tests. The pool owning live capabilities behind an instance-status endpoint would close it.
  • On the wire-form section: the doc defers the opaque type because nothing serializes identity yet, but dirscan already persists it. dir_scan_files.file_id is a BLOB of FileID.Bytes() with a unique index on (directory_id, file_id), and rename detection matches on it, so the encoding change needs a migration or a version byte whenever it lands, which is an argument for pinning the shape now. I'd make it tagged, something like struct { kind uint8; raw [24]byte } with kind 0 for no identity, 1 for unix dev+ino big endian, 2 for a Windows volume serial plus the 16-byte file id, 3 for a remote-provided blob. The tag is the hard-to-retrofit part, untagged bytes let a unix dev=1,ino=2 collide with a Windows identity in the same space, and it keeps IsZero() meaning "no identity" rather than "a backend handed us zeros". 24 is the floor not the target, and Bytes() should return the tagged form too, since dirscan keys its index on string(FileID.Bytes()) and that key has to stay collision-free across a mixed pair. Related, the same-backend comparison guard is prose-only right now, and == across two hosts compiles, runs, and is only wrong in production, so I'd put the scope in the value or send comparisons through a helper that takes it.

The doc ships with the PR and can take amendments after, so none of that holds up the merge. The security ones are my lane anyway, so rather than leaving them as homework I'll post suggested edits on the doc file for the symlink policy, the host-key-change behavior, the fingerprint AAD note, and the FileID encoding, and you can accept or rework them. The path-semantics one I'm leaving as a question since that's a contract call for you and soup, not wording.

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The suggested edits I mentioned. Three are wording for decisions we already talked about, with the sharp edges from an adversarial pass written in (the SFTP tier's residual delete race, the pin lifecycle, what the AAD binding actually buys and what it doesn't). S4 also folds in one thing I hit reading dirscan: dir_scan_files.file_id already persists FileID.Bytes(), so the encoding change ships with a migration whenever it lands. All of this is still design-time, fsops has no consumers outside itself yet, so these are wording changes, not refactors. Accept, rework, or push back on any of them.

One question rather than a suggestion: the old #1917 schema allowed ssh_auth_type = 'password', and a password gets transmitted to whatever host the pin admits, so if the reshape keeps it the security section needs to cover that, and if it drops it, saying key-only is cheaper.

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…ink policy, host-key lifecycle, pin AAD

Four suggested edits from com6056's security pass, applied as proposed:
the FileID wire form becomes tagged (kind byte over [24]byte — untagged
bytes let unix and Windows identities collide; remote-parsed identity is
always its own kind and stays advisory, never expanding destructive
actions) and the section now records that dirscan already persists
FileID.Bytes() in dir_scan_files.file_id, so the encoding lands with a
migration; destructive ops get a never-follow symlink rule with the
honest SFTP v3 race bound; the pinned host key gains the same AEAD+AAD
treatment as the private key (host+port in AAD); and the host-key-change
flow fails closed with an explicit pin lifecycle (no re-pin via ssh-test,
needs-reconfirmation state on background mismatch).
…FTP link conflicts

Backend errors are now contractually errors.Is-compatible with
fs.ErrNotExist / fs.ErrPermission across all methods, not just Stat, with
the local backend as reference implementation under test — remote
backends map transport errors onto the same sentinels (Audionut on
#1914).

Design doc gains a Path Domains section: backend paths live in the
backend's native dialect, host filepath never touches a remote path
(filepath.IsAbs("/data") is false on a Windows host), and the remote PR
introduces a path dialect so Windows-hosted qui operating a unix remote
is correct by construction. Also: SFTP-only cannot prove an existing
hardlink target is the same link, so it is always a conflict, never an
idempotent skip.
…signature

Create returns (*Created, error) since the #2287 handle model landed;
the windows-tagged test still used the old single-return form and nothing
cross-vets pkg/ on Windows, so it broke every GOOS=windows lint run.
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The two Lstat callsites whose semantics moved vs develop (which used
os.Stat): symlinked torrent data now indexes the target's identity again,
so symlink-farm setups keep already-seeding detection, and root-level
symlinked media files are scanned via their target. Uses Stat's
followed-target identity added on #1914 — its previously-unwired
consumers.
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@Audionut Thanks for running this — all six landed somewhere concrete:

  • Path semantics (High): agreed this is the real contract gap. The design doc now has a Path Domains section (0f1b905): every path belongs to its backend's filesystem in native form — local speaks host paths so current callsites are correct by construction, remote speaks slash-delimited POSIX regardless of host OS, and host filepath never touches a remote path. The remote-backend PR introduces a path dialect for backend-owned manipulation; local's dialect is host filepath, so the callsite migration bakes nothing in that the remote breaks. @s0up4200 this one's a contract call — flagging for your sign-off.
  • Cancellation/rollback (Medium): the rollback half is fixed on refactor(services): use fsops.Backend for all filesystem operations #1915 — all rollback paths (dirscan inject, seasonpack, hardlink/reflink) run under context.WithoutCancel now. Mid-operation interruption of tree creates is deliberate: pkg/hardlinktree is ctx-free, bounded, and rolls itself back on failure.
  • Portable errors (Medium): contract documented on the interface (errors.Is with fs.ErrNotExist/fs.ErrPermission across all methods) with the local backend as reference under test (0f1b905).
  • SFTP hardlink conflicts (Medium): doc'd — without identity, an existing target can't be proven the same link, so SFTP-only treats it as a conflict and fails the create, never an idempotent skip.
  • Interface size (Low): prior decision on record — declined with the design-doc exception, and the surface was already cut 17→12 this round.
  • Lint: real catch, develop-inherited — the windows-tagged sharedextents test never got the fix(crossseed): roll back only the files a failed link attempt created #2287 signature change and nothing cross-vets pkg/ on Windows. Fixed in c4a763d.

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@com6056 Stat's consumers are wired now — you were right. fileid_index and scanSingleFile call Stat on #1915 (d4cf319), and the symlink test from the migration turned out to be asserting the regression as intended behavior, so it now asserts develop's (89c0fab).

On the cost fork I took wiring over opt-in: the Windows double-open on missing-files is real but bounded, and identity-opt-in is exactly the kind of flag we just finished stripping. If it stings in practice it can ride in with the remote backend, which needs per-op identity control anyway.

All four doc suggestions applied as-is in c933f52 the dirscan persistence catch corrected a factually wrong line of mine, appreciated. Threads resolved.

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Track SFTP extension capabilities per operation.

statvfs@openssh.com and hardlink@openssh.com are optional SFTP extensions. Do not define every SFTP-only connection as supporting Statfs and HardlinkTree. Record each extension in the capability report and return explicit degraded errors when an extension is unavailable. Do not report “Full functionality” for SFTP+exec unless each operation has a supported SFTP extension or an explicit exec fallback.

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In `@docs/remote-backend-design.md` around lines 18 - 22, Update the capability
probe and report to track statvfs@openssh.com and hardlink@openssh.com
independently per operation, rather than treating every SFTP-only connection as
supporting Statfs and HardlinkTree. Make each operation return an explicit
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- Around line 281-282: Define the unknown-filesystem contract for SameFilesystem
when SFTP fsids are unavailable: explicitly choose whether to return an error or
disable operations that require the check, and document the resulting behavior
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- Around line 18-22: Update the capability probe and report to track
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The Schema section still said 'host-key fingerprint' — a leftover from the
pre-security-review draft that contradicted the Security section's
requirements (marshaled public key + algorithm under AEAD with
host+port AAD; fingerprints are display-only). Since the Schema section
scopes #1917, the stale wording would have steered the migration toward a
column that cannot support the HostKeyAlgorithms constraint or tamper
detection. Also names the motivating deployment for the AAD binding:
Postgres with the database on a different host from sessionSecret, where
a DB-write attacker without app-host access is realistic — and notes the
mechanism stays the product's single AES-GCM/sessionSecret pattern with
an AAD argument the existing stores simply haven't passed.
GetDiskFreeSpaceEx requires a directory while unix.Statfs accepts files,
so Statfs on a regular file worked on unix and failed on Windows with an
error outside the portable vocabulary. Stat first (missing paths keep
fs.ErrNotExist on both platforms), then query the containing directory
for non-directories. Cross-platform test covers the file-path case.
…ntry Err path

The comment claimed the final entry surfaces 'permission denied, etc.',
but per-entry enumeration errors are emitted inline and never abort the
walk — the final entry fires only when the walk itself returns an error
(the root-stat TOCTOU case). A refactor trusting that comment could drop
the inline emission with every test still green, so the unreadable-subdir
path now has coverage: Err entry emitted, walk continues.
…m unknown-fsid contract

CodeRabbit round: SFTP extensions (statvfs@/hardlink@openssh.com) are
probed per operation instead of assumed present on the SFTP-only tier —
an op whose extension is missing returns an explicit unsupported error
and shows in the capability report, and 'full functionality' is verified
per op, not implied by the tier label. SameFilesystem with unusable fsids
is decided: explicit error, never a guess — both migrated callers already
treat the error as don't-hardlink, which is the safe degradation. Also
avoids opening a line with a bare # token.
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@s0up4200 — the stack has been through com's re-review (all threads resolved), Audionut's scripts, CodeRabbit re-runs, and a Fable adversarial multi-agent pass. Everything found is fixed. What's left is the set of calls that are yours to make. All of them live in docs/remote-backend-design.md on this PR, so a doc review covers the lot.

Merge safety: this PR changes no behavior on develop. internal/fsops has zero callers until #1915/#1916 wire it in — the diff is the new package, docs, a .gitignore line, and a test-only fix for the windows-tagged sharedextents test that's currently broken on develop (pre-#2287 signature).

Needs your decision:

  1. Direction sign-off — the doc is the artifact for the thing I originally wanted your blessing on before committing another migration: no deployed agent, single SSH connection with SFTP subsystem + opt-in exec channels, capabilities probed per-connect. feat(agent): add remote helper design doc and NDJSON proto types #1913 is closed but preserved as the fallback tier if this hits a performance wall.
  2. Path Domains contract (§Path Domains) — backend paths live in the backend's native dialect; host filepath never touches a remote path; a path dialect lands with the remote PR. This constrains how refactor(services): use fsops.Backend for all filesystem operations #1915's callsites treat paths, so it should be settled before that merges. Raised by Audionut, seconded by com; it's the one open contract disagreement the reviews surfaced.
  3. Security/storage model (§Security, §Schema) — pinned host key stored as marshaled public key + algorithm (not a fingerprint) under the same AES-GCM/sessionSecret pattern the credential stores use today, with AAD binding (instance+field, plus host+port on the pin) that the legacy columns don't have. It's a deliberate ratchet: new columns stronger than old, old untouched. Motivating case is Postgres deployments where the DB lives away from sessionSecret. This also fixes the feat(models): add SSH/helper schema and HasFilesystemAccess helper #1917 scope — the Schema section is what that PR will build.

Decided during review — veto if you disagree:

  • FileID becomes an opaque tagged form (kind byte + bytes) at remote-backend time; remote-parsed identity is its own kind and stays advisory — never expands a destructive action. dirscan already persists FileID.Bytes(), so the encoding lands with a migration.
  • SameFilesystem with unusable fsids returns an explicit error, never a guess — both migrated callers already treat that as "don't hardlink."
  • StatBatch/LstatBatch return with the remote-backend PR as their consumer (your drop-until-needed standard, applied in both directions).
  • SFTP extensions are probed per-operation; missing extension = explicit unsupported error, not an assumed capability.

After this merges: #1915 is where your original eight findings were fixed (each in its own commit). To be clear, 1915 is not ready for review.

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