fix(fuse,core): retry a create at once when a write replaced its blob (B185)

crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs

@@ -1477,22 +1477,28 @@ impl Db {
     /// Make a create due again if it was renamed or moved
     /// ([`Db::rewrite_op_target`]) while the attempt that just failed was on
     /// the wire, `parent_uid` and `name` being what that attempt sent. What it
-    /// failed on may have been the target it no longer has. Returns whether it
+    /// failed on may have been the target it no longer has. Likewise if a
+    /// write replaced its blob (`blob_path` being the one the attempt read):
+    /// the old one is discarded as the new one attaches, and an attempt that
+    /// had not opened it yet failed on a file that is gone. Returns whether it
     /// was.
     pub fn retry_if_retargeted(
         &self,
         id: i64,
         parent_uid: Option<&str>,
         name: Option<&str>,
+        blob_path: Option<&str>,
     ) -> Result<bool> {
         let conn = self.conn.lock();
         let n = conn.execute(
             &format!(
                 "UPDATE pending_op SET next_attempt_at = 0
                  WHERE id = ?1 AND kind IN (?4, ?5) AND next_attempt_at < ?6
-                   AND ({PARENT_NOW} IS NOT ?2 OR name IS NOT ?3)"
+                   AND ({PARENT_NOW} IS NOT ?2 OR name IS NOT ?3 OR blob_path IS NOT ?7)"
             ),
-            params![id, parent_uid, name, OP_CREATE, OP_MKDIR, PARK_UNTIL],
+            params![
+                id, parent_uid, name, OP_CREATE, OP_MKDIR, PARK_UNTIL, blob_path
+            ],
         )?;
         Ok(n > 0)
     }

crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs

@@ -2969,7 +2969,8 @@ fn renaming_a_queued_create_rewrites_its_target() {
 
 /// A create that failed on a name held by a queued change waits out a
 /// backoff. Renamed away from that name, it is due again at once; parked, it
-/// stays parked.
+/// stays parked. One whose blob a write replaced as it failed is due again at
+/// once too.
 #[test]
 fn renaming_a_backing_off_create_makes_it_due() {
     let db = Db::open_in_memory().unwrap();
@@ -3011,8 +3012,13 @@ fn renaming_a_backing_off_create_makes_it_due() {
     db.record_op_failure(sent.id, "d is still held", 10_000)
         .unwrap();
     assert!(
-        db.retry_if_retargeted(sent.id, sent.parent_uid.as_deref(), sent.name.as_deref())
-            .unwrap()
+        db.retry_if_retargeted(
+            sent.id,
+            sent.parent_uid.as_deref(),
+            sent.name.as_deref(),
+            sent.blob_path.as_deref()
+        )
+        .unwrap()
     );
     let ops = db.pending_ops().unwrap();
     assert_eq!(
@@ -3023,8 +3029,42 @@ fn renaming_a_backing_off_create_makes_it_due() {
         0
     );
     assert!(
-        !db.retry_if_retargeted(sent.id, sent.parent_uid.as_deref(), Some("f"))
-            .unwrap()
+        !db.retry_if_retargeted(
+            sent.id,
+            sent.parent_uid.as_deref(),
+            Some("f"),
+            sent.blob_path.as_deref()
+        )
+        .unwrap()
+    );
+
+    // A write replaced the blob before the attempt opened it: the old one was
+    // discarded, the attempt failed on a missing file, and the create is due
+    // again at once with the new one (`docs/BUGS.md` B185).
+    db.record_op_failure(sent.id, "No such file or directory", 10_000)
+        .unwrap();
+    db.attach_blob_to_create("local~failed", "/staging/newer", "{}")
+        .unwrap()
+        .expect("the create is still queued");
+    db.record_op_failure(sent.id, "No such file or directory", 10_000)
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        db.retry_if_retargeted(
+            sent.id,
+            sent.parent_uid.as_deref(),
+            Some("f"),
+            sent.blob_path.as_deref()
+        )
+        .unwrap()
+    );
+    assert!(
+        !db.retry_if_retargeted(
+            sent.id,
+            sent.parent_uid.as_deref(),
+            Some("f"),
+            Some("/staging/newer")
+        )
+        .unwrap()
     );
 }
 

crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs

@@ -441,9 +441,10 @@ impl Core {
                     op.id,
                     op.parent_uid.as_deref(),
                     op.name.as_deref(),
+                    op.blob_path.as_deref(),
                 ) {
                     Ok(true) => {
-                        debug!(uid = %op.uid, "create was renamed while it failed; retrying")
+                        debug!(uid = %op.uid, "create was renamed or rewritten while it failed; retrying")
                     }
                     Ok(false) => {}
                     Err(e) => {

docs/BUGS.md

@@ -12,6 +12,25 @@ Conventions:
 
 ---
 
+## B185 — A new file written again just as it starts uploading waits out a retry
+
+**Status:** Fixed (unverified).
+**Found:** 2026-10-05, in the confirmation run on 3073052 (`one_client_on_a_good_link` seed 6,
+then `one_client_deleting_files_as_they_upload` seed 4). The queues did not drain in time: a
+create had failed with "No such file or directory" and was backing off.
+
+**Where:** `Db::retry_if_retargeted` in `crates/pdfs-core/src/db/ops.rs`, called from the drain
+in `crates/pdfs-fuse/src/drain.rs`.
+
+**Cause.** A write to a file whose create is queued attaches a new blob to the create and
+discards the old one at once. An attempt that had claimed the create but not yet opened the old
+blob failed on a file that was gone, and backed off as if Drive had refused it. The new blob was
+ready, but the create waited out the backoff.
+
+**Fix.** A failed create whose blob was replaced while it ran is due again at once, the way one
+renamed while it ran already was. Test `renaming_a_backing_off_create_makes_it_due` in
+`crates/pdfs-core/src/db/tests.rs`.
+
 ## B184 — A file renamed after its create lost its answer stays on Drive under its old name
 
 **Status:** Fixed (unverified).

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ by its local id, in the queue, the stored tree and pins alike.
 - **A file renamed while the connection lost Drive's answer to its upload lands once.** It no
   longer stayed on Drive under its old name too, or, when deleted, under its old name alone
   (B184).
+- **A new file written again just as it starts uploading no longer waits out a retry** before
+  it reaches Drive (B185).
 - **A file renamed just as its upload finished keeps its new name.** The mount no longer showed
   the old name, and a second rename no longer failed with "No such file or directory" (B152,
   B172).

docs/MILESTONE-3.0.0-STATUS.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Tracks `docs/MILESTONE-3.0.0.md`. Update it with every commit that moves a phase
 - **Phase 2**: local ids, inode = local id, one tree for every mount (2.10.0).
 - **Phase 3, first part**: mkdir, create, rename, unlink and rmdir on the mount are recorded
   locally and sent from the queue; `"local_first": false` brings back the old path (5e0f30c).
-- Fixes from the simulation and account runs since then: B125, B127, B130 and B141 to B184.
+- Fixes from the simulation and account runs since then: B125, B127, B130 and B141 to B185.
 - **Sync issues, first cut** (§6.2): refusals sorted into issues, shown at once in the app,
   tray and CLI; Export button and `pdfs sync export`; `pdfs sync issues`; Discard button and
   `pdfs sync discard`; a warning badge on the node in the file browser.
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ Tracks `docs/MILESTONE-3.0.0.md`. Update it with every commit that moves a phase
          after restarts: a write over a create never read back (B182) and a trash that forgot
          what its create sent (B183). Replays with those fixed found a third: a create renamed
          after it lost its answer (B184). All three fixed; no known-bug matcher fired. It was
-         stopped before `three_clients`.
+         stopped before `three_clients`. The rerun on 3073052 found a create that waited out
+         a retry after a write replaced its blob (B185, fixed).
    - [ ] A clean account run. The one on a6f36d5 (2026-10-04, LAN: 427 passed, 12 failed)
          failed B113 and B121 on every on-demand mount, two mirror-to-mirror move cases, and
          the journal check. B121 was a bug (B149, fixed); B113's case still expected creates