rm -r FOLDER deletes a folder and everything under it, records and
objects, so the space is freed. It lists what will go (the first 20
names, then a count) with the total size and asks on the terminal; no
answer or no terminal deletes nothing. -f skips the question and makes a
missing name a no-op, -rf and -fr combine them, and rm -r / is refused.
Objects still in use are worked out once per delete, not once per file.
ls now shows one level, like ls(1): sub-folders once with a trailing
slash, their total size and newest date, then the files, with names
relative to the folder. list keeps the recursive listing of full names
that scripts pipe through cut -c31-, and ls -r is the same.
Docs, man pages, the guide (new rm-r screenshot) and README follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
shots.py now shoots absorb (a gzipped tarball and a tar pipe) and mirror
(a small site served on localhost). The locking section and the cheat
sheet list migrate, mirror and absorb, and the man pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
shots.py gains a pseudo-terminal runner so it can answer migrate's
overwrite question, and the guide shows the resulting screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
File bodies are now cut into 4 MiB objects, the last padded to its
power-of-two bucket, so every object is 64 KiB to 4 MiB whatever the file
size. Object IDs are HMAC'd from a secret per-record seed, so nothing on
disk links a file's pieces, and each object still leads with its own ID,
binding it to its record and position. Chunks are encrypted and synced by
a small worker pool so their fsyncs overlap.
records/ and objects/ are sharded into 256 subdirectories by ID prefix,
all created at init, with every shard's mtime pinned to the epoch.
vault init --filler SIZE writes at least SIZE of filler. Filler entries
are now real entries for a throwaway key, of log-uniform random sizes, so
they carry multi-chunk files like a real collection.
The marker becomes VAULT 2; earlier vaults are not supported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A LaTeX field guide covering install, keys, everyday commands, the
decoy passphrase, scripting, locking and sync, internals, troubleshooting
and a cheat sheet. build-pdf.sh compiles it with a pinned Tectonic,
downloaded on first use. shots.py regenerates every screenshot from the
real vault binary in a sandbox home.
Andy DixonandClaude Opus 5.5