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fix(nvsnap): do not treat an empty manifest as an existing capture - #960

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Why

When the backend tiers disagree about a hash, the agent skips the capture and reports success, leaving the pod recorded as captured but unrestorable.

Observed on a 70B TP=4 workload:

capture skipped: hash already exists   hash=2bd3276f8fff...  pod=.../vllm-70b
capture committed for pod   files=0  size_mib=0  hash=2bd3276f8fff

Both lines are info, so it reads as success. The e2e then sat for 60 minutes waiting for a manifest that was never going to be written.

Backend is a chain (Local -> ConfigMap -> PerCapturePVC) and Stat answers from the first tier that claims the hash. A per-capture PVC left behind by an earlier capture claims a hash whose manifest tier is gone, and returns a manifest describing no content. Capture treated any successful Stat as "already captured" and returned it unchanged, so a partially-removed capture was indistinguishable from a complete one.

Anything that removes one tier without the others reproduces this: manifest GC, partial cleanup, a failed promote.

What changed

Treat a manifest with no files or no bytes as not a usable capture: log at warn that the tiers are inconsistent for that hash, and re-capture.

Customer Release Notes

A pod whose stored capture is incomplete is now re-captured instead of being silently recorded as captured-but-unrestorable.

Plan Summary

Not applicable.

Usage

Not applicable.

Testing

New unit tests cover the decision this turns on: a real capture still short-circuits, and each shape of empty manifest (no files, no bytes, neither) does not. go build ./... clean, internal/... and cmd/... pass. The new test file is registered in BUILD.bazel so the generated-files check stays green.

Not reproduced end to end on a cluster: doing so means deliberately deleting one tier of a real capture and waiting out a capture cycle. The production occurrence is quoted above, and the unit tests pin the decision that caused it.

Notes

Two limits worth stating rather than glossing:

  • FileCount/TotalSizeBytes are the only emptiness signal available at that point, so a workload that genuinely captured nothing is re-captured on every pass instead of skipped. That is cheap -- there is nothing to copy -- and preferable to caching something restore cannot use.
  • This makes the inconsistency loud, not impossible. Converging the tiers, or requiring the manifest tier specifically since restore needs it, is a larger change and is described in the issue.

References

Closes #959

Related Pull Requests

Found while validating #945; independent of it. #945 changes behaviour only for workloads with runtime directories, this changes when any capture is considered to exist -- kept separate so they can be reviewed and reverted independently.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved capture validation to reject empty or incomplete manifests.
    • Automatically recaptures data when a previously recorded capture is unusable.
    • Preserved existing behavior for valid captures, avoiding unnecessary recaptures.
    • Added regression coverage for empty, partial, stale, and valid capture scenarios.

Backend is a chain (Local -> ConfigMap -> PerCapturePVC) and Stat answers
from the first tier that claims a hash, so the tiers can disagree. A
per-capture PVC left behind by an earlier capture claims a hash whose
manifest tier is gone and returns a manifest describing no content.
Capture treated any successful Stat as "already captured", so it skipped
the work and the watcher logged

  capture skipped: hash already exists
  capture committed for pod  files=0  size_mib=0

both at info. The pod is recorded as captured and cannot be restored, and
nothing says so. On a 70B TP=4 workload this turned a stale artifact into
a silent 60-minute wait for a manifest that was never going to be written.

Treat a manifest with no files or no bytes as unusable: warn that the
tiers are inconsistent for that hash, and re-capture. A workload that
genuinely captured nothing is then re-captured every pass rather than
skipped -- cheap, since there is nothing to copy, and better than caching
something restore cannot use.

This makes the inconsistency loud, not impossible. Converging the tiers,
or requiring the manifest tier specifically since restore needs it, is a
larger change left for #959.

Closes #959

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Capture now checks manifest file and byte counts before treating a hash as already captured. Empty or partially populated manifests trigger recapture. New tests cover the validation rules and stale-manifest regression.

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Capture validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Usable capture contract
src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/orchestrator.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/empty_capture_test.go, src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/BUILD.bazel
usableCapture accepts manifests only when file count and total byte size are greater than zero. Tests cover valid, empty, and partially populated manifests.
Capture revalidation
src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/orchestrator.go
Capture warns and recaptures when Backend.Stat returns a contentless manifest. Usable captures retain the existing skip behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ed148

This change re-captures incomplete stored captures instead of treating them as restorable, with focused unit coverage and no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Capture
  participant Backend
  participant Manifest
  Capture->>Backend: Stat(hash)
  Backend-->>Capture: Return manifest
  Capture->>Manifest: Check file count and total bytes
  alt Content is present
    Capture-->>Capture: Skip recapture
  else Content is absent
    Capture-->>Capture: Warn and recapture
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src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/orchestrator.go (3)

224-232: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

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Verify that re-capture can replace an unusable claimed hash.

If Backend.Put returns ErrExists for the same unusable claim, the existing ErrExists path re-reads and returns that unusable manifest. Confirm that the backend chain repairs or replaces this state, or that ErrExists can only represent a concurrent usable capture. Add a Capture-level test for this backend sequence.


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Confirm whether the capture-tier architecture or sequence diagram must show the new revalidation and re-capture path after Backend.Stat.

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src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/empty_capture_test.go (1)

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The comment carried workload-specific debugging context and log excerpts
from the run that surfaced this, which an external reader of the public
repo cannot access and does not need. Keep the mechanism -- tiers can
disagree, the skip is logged as a successful commit, nothing downstream
can tell -- and drop the rest.

Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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nvsnap: a stale L2 claim makes the agent report an empty capture as successful

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