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hub v0.88.0 — the WAL that never was (R-172)
store.New opened the DB with `?_journal_mode=WAL&_busy_timeout=5000`, which is
mattn/go-sqlite3 syntax. The driver is modernc.org/sqlite, whose applyQueryParams
reads only _pragma/_time_format/_time_integer_format/_txlock/_inttotime and
IGNORES anything else WITHOUT AN ERROR. So the hub ran in rollback-journal mode
with busy_timeout=0 for its entire life while its own source said otherwise.

Surfaced as a false HOST STALE banner: in rollback-journal mode a reader excludes
a writer, so rendering an operator page blocks a host report; the hub 500s, the
agent waits its full 15-minute interval without retrying, and staleness fires at
30 minutes — two collisions is a false alarm plus an operator email. 13 collisions
in one pod lifetime; the alarm fired twice on 2026-08-02 for a host that was up
two days and reconciling throughout.

The observable that proved it: a 128 MB /data/hub.db with no -wal/-shm beside it
while the DB was open.

Fix: ?_pragma=journal_mode(WAL)&_pragma=busy_timeout(5000)&_txlock=immediate.
_txlock=immediate is not optional — database/sql's Begin() is DEFERRED, so a
read-then-write tx must upgrade its lock and a failed upgrade is
SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT, which busy_timeout does NOT retry; this store has 10+
db.Begin() sites and they are all write paths.

Every test asserts what the DATABASE reports, never the DSN string — a string
test would have passed for the whole life of the bug. Red-proof: restoring the
shipped DSN reproduces journal_mode="delete", the missing -wal, and the live
"database is locked (5) (SQLITE_BUSY)".

Operational consequence handled: a WAL DB cannot be copied by taking hub.db
alone — a bare `cat` opens cleanly and silently omits the newest writes. The
break-glass retrieval in operations/nodes.md used exactly that; it and the
recovery-inventory note are now WAL-aware.
2026-08-02 21:06:29 +02:00
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Felhom — Documentation

Felhom is a managed home-server service for Hungarian households, built on a three-component model over Proxmox:

  • Hub — operator backend on k3s (hub.felhom.eu). Repo: felhom.eu/hub/.
  • Host agent — one per Proxmox host; operator-tier; owns all Proxmox interaction. Repo: felhom-agent/.
  • In-guest controller — one per customer LXC; Docker-only; manages the customer's apps. Repo: felhom-controller/.

This directory is the central, code-verified documentation home for all three components plus the platform and the security-audit record.

Sections

Controller (in-guest) — controller/

The Docker-only app-domain controller. Full per-area docs grounded in current source (v0.59.0). → controller/README.md: module map, deploy & stack lifecycle, backup architecture, storage/monitoring/metrics, auth/hub/sync/integrations.

Host agent & platform — architecture/, proxmox-platform.md

The operator-tier agent and the Proxmox platform.

Hub (operator backend) — architecture/05

Security audits & remediation — audits/

Spike & test findings — tests/

Per-slice spike/validation findings (phases 05, slices 710). See tests/.

Conventions

  • Code-verified, not memory-derived. Architectural claims here are checked against the actual current source; if a claim can't be verified it is omitted and flagged, not guessed.
  • Per-repo operational working files (CLAUDE.md, CONTEXT.md, CHANGELOG.md, BUGHUNT.md, REPORT.md, TASK.md) live in their own repos — they are operational, not published docs.
  • Authoritative versions at last refresh: controller v0.59.0, agent v0.29.1, hub v0.11.0.