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Implements dolos-state-rebuild-from-archive (Trellis plan, org/coder): an operator debugging or repairing a synced dolos instance can regenerate its state store from the instance's own archive — no network, no snapshot re-import, no re-writing of the archive or indexes.

What changed

  • New dolos doctor rebuild-state (src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs): replays the instance's archive from origin through import_blocks into a fresh state store, against a hand-assembled DomainAdapter (in-memory WAL, no-op archive/indexes, ephemeral mempool).
    • In place (default): crash-safe sequence — preflight → wal.reset_to(Origin) → wipe state_path → replay to archive tip → wal.reset_to(final cursor) → postflight. A crash mid-rebuild leaves WAL(origin) behind the state cursor, which the next startup refuses loudly (InconsistentState); re-running the command recovers.
    • --target <path> / --ephemeral: isolated outputs; the instance's stores are not touched.
    • --stop-epoch <n> (isolated outputs only), --chunk <n>, --force (non-TTY requires it; TTY confirms the wipe interactively).
    • Preflight refuses empty and pruned (max_history) archives; deliberately not a strict prev-hash origin walk (Byron EBB slot-key overwrite would flag legitimate mainnet archives). Continuity is enforced during replay by check_extension.
  • --rewrite-logs (in-place only): the domain's archive is swapped for a new write-gated ArchiveStoreBackend::LogsOnly variant wrapping the already-open redb store (src/adapters/storage.rs): write_log/commit delegate, apply/undo no-op (block appends are not idempotent). Boundary log keys are slot-derived, so corrected StakeLog / reward logs / EpochState rows overwrite in place. Overwrites only; never deletes stale rows.
  • Rebuild-equality test (tests/rebuild_state.rs): a synthetic chain built through import, state rebuilt in place from the archive by the real binary, full store equality asserted (cursor, every namespace's entities, full UTxO set), archive segment files byte-identical, WAL reseeded; plus --rewrite-logs row-equality, --target/--ephemeral isolation, non-TTY --force refusal, and the --stop-epoch flag gate. The Node fixture now persists the synthetic chain's custom_utxos into dolos.toml so a separate process replaying from origin seeds the same genesis.

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Verification

Automated

  • cargo test — all suites pass, including the new rebuild_state suite (also under --features strict, per done criterion 6)
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo +nightly fmt --all -- --check — clean

Preprod, end to end

A preprod instance bootstrapped from Mithril (~/dolos-instances/preprod-rebuild, 17 GB archive / 304 segments, tip slot 131284793), then driven through every mode. Wall-clock on a 10-core / 16 GB workstation:

run wall-clock
Mithril bootstrap (download + full-pipeline import) — the datum 93.8 min
in-place rebuild-state 42.4 min
--rewrite-logs 49.0 min
--target (fresh state store elsewhere) 43.6 min
recovery rebuild after a killed run 42.6 min
dolos data check (full width) 1.5 min

The plan's reference datum was "~1 h preprod" for a full replay; the measured bootstrap here was 93.8 min including download. A state rebuild costs 42.4 min and re-writes nothing but the state store — no download, no snapshot re-import, no archive or index rewriting.

Criterion 1 — in-place rebuild. Regenerated state in place; cursor returned to the synced tip 131284793(9689ca2a…); all 304 archive segment files byte-identical (sha256) before/after; dolos data check passes at full width (cursors, archive-continuity, account-epochs, epoch-log, totals — 0 issues); dolos daemon then bootstraps cleanly ("WAL is in sync with state"), finds intersection at the rebuilt tip and rolls forward onto live blocks with zero errors.

Criterion 2 — --rewrite-logs. Derived log rows re-written and spot-checked via dolos data dump-logs (stakes, epochs namespaces) — identical values at identical keys; blocks table and segment files unchanged in count, size, and bytes.

Criterion 3 — isolated outputs. --target completed with the instance's stores untouched (log rows unchanged, segment hashes unchanged). --ephemeral completed writing nothing.

⚠️ Operational limit found: an unbounded --ephemeral replay of the full preprod chain exhausted the 16 GB workstation and took the machine down. The builtin memory state store holds every entity and the whole UTxO set uncompressed, which is a different order of magnitude from the same state in fjall's on-disk LSM tree. Documented on the flag and in the module docs (2nd commit); --ephemeral is for bounded replays (--stop-epoch) and small chains, --target is the full-chain validation mode. The instance was verified untouched afterwards — a crash during an ephemeral run costs nothing.

Criterion 4 — --stop-epoch. Stops cleanly at the requested epoch, verified as a scaling curve with --target:

stop epoch wall-clock state size cursor exact boundary
20 2.9 s 4.8 M 6,998,401 6,998,400
30 4 s 15 M 11,318,425 11,318,400
60 50 s 302 M 24,278,405 24,278,400
100 129 s 786 M 41,558,400 41,558,400

Every cursor lands within one block of the exact boundary, and cost grows superlinearly toward the full-chain figures — preprod's first ~30 epochs are genuinely near-empty.

Criterion 5 — crash recovery. An in-place rebuild killed 90 s into the replay (kill -9) leaves the instance refusing to start, legibly:

Error:   × state (slot 34253401) is ahead of WAL (slot 0)
  help: run `dolos doctor reset-wal` to rebuild the WAL from the current state

Re-running dolos doctor rebuild-state --force recovers it fully: same cursor as the original sync, data check clean at full width, daemon starts.

📝 Finding, not fixed here (pre-existing, out of this PR's scope): that help: line points at doctor reset-wal, which is the wrong advice for a half-rebuilt instance — it would seed the WAL at the partial cursor and present a truncated ledger as consistent, instead of finishing the rebuild. The refusal itself is correct and is what the plan's crash-safety story relies on; only the suggested remedy is misleading on this path. Flagged for the owner to decide, since the message is shared by every crash path, not just this command's.

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  • New Features

    • Added dolos doctor rebuild-state to regenerate state from the local archive.
    • Supports in-place, alternate-directory, and temporary in-memory rebuilds.
    • Added bounded replay, configurable chunking, log rewriting, and forced execution options.
    • Archive statistics, export sanitization, and pruning now support logs-only storage.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved rebuild safety through validation, recovery handling, and completion checks.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end coverage for rebuild modes, log rewriting, safety checks, and archive integrity.

…fresh state store

New `dolos doctor rebuild-state`: regenerates the state store from the
instance's own archive through the import lifecycle — no network, no
snapshot re-import, no re-writing of the archive or indexes. In-place by
default (crash-safe sequence: WAL to origin, wipe, replay, WAL reseed),
with --target and --ephemeral for isolated outputs, --stop-epoch to bound
an isolated replay, and --rewrite-logs to overwrite the archive's derived
log rows through a new write-gated ArchiveStoreBackend::LogsOnly view over
the already-open redb store.

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The archive layer adds a logs-only redb backend. Data commands accept this backend. A new dolos doctor rebuild-state command replays archive data into state stores with safety checks, WAL handling, and multiple output modes. End-to-end tests cover the supported modes and validations.

Changes

Archive state rebuilding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Logs-only archive backend
src/adapters/storage.rs, src/bin/dolos/data/*
Adds logs-only archive handles and writers. Log operations remain active while block application and undo operations are discarded. Archive reads, lookup, pruning, truncation, compaction, and sanitization support the new backend.
Rebuild-state command
src/bin/dolos/doctor/mod.rs, src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs
Adds the rebuild-state doctor subcommand. It supports in-place, target, and ephemeral rebuilds, bounded replay, log rewriting, confirmation checks, WAL reset and reseeding, and cursor verification.
Rebuild-state integration validation
tests/node/mod.rs, tests/rebuild_state.rs
Configures synthetic custom UTxOs and tests rebuilt state, logs, WAL data, archive segments, alternate targets, ephemeral output, force requirements, and partial-rebuild restrictions.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 00381

The rebuild command can leave an instance unavailable when given an invalid zero chunk size, because destructive preparation occurs before validation; the log-rewrite path also has a panic risk for aliased database usage. Both are recoverable or currently unreachable, but they should receive explicit owner follow-up before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant DoctorCommand
  participant rebuild_state_run
  participant ArchiveStore
  participant StateStore
  participant WAL
  Operator->>DoctorCommand: invoke rebuild-state with options
  DoctorCommand->>rebuild_state_run: pass config, arguments, and feedback
  rebuild_state_run->>ArchiveStore: validate archive and replay records
  rebuild_state_run->>StateStore: write rebuilt state
  rebuild_state_run->>WAL: reset and reseed WAL state
  rebuild_state_run->>StateStore: verify resulting cursor
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  • txpipe/dolos#683: Introduced the writer-based archive API used by the logs-only backend.
  • txpipe/dolos#952: Introduced archive export sanitization extended by the logs-only backend.
  • txpipe/dolos#1005: Modified archive export sanitization handling in the same code path.
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An unbounded --ephemeral rebuild of a preprod instance exhausted a 16 GB
workstation: the builtin memory state store keeps every entity and the
full UTxO set uncompressed, which is a different order of magnitude from
the same state in fjall's LSM tree on disk. Say so where an operator
chooses the flag.

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src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs (1)

211-215: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Replace the expect with a diagnostic.

get_tip returning None panics here. The invariant holds only while no other process mutates the archive, and the command's only concurrency guard is the backend file lock. A bail! keeps the operator-facing error style of the rest of this command.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-    let (tip_slot, tip_body) = archive
-        .get_tip()
-        .into_diagnostic()
-        .context("reading archive tip")?
-        .expect("archive with a first block has a tip");
+    let Some((tip_slot, tip_body)) = archive
+        .get_tip()
+        .into_diagnostic()
+        .context("reading archive tip")?
+    else {
+        bail!("the archive reported a first block but no tip; it changed under this command");
+    };
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In `@src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs` around lines 211 - 215, Replace the
expect call in the archive tip retrieval flow with a diagnostic error using the
command’s existing bail-style error handling, while preserving the current
success path for Some tip values and the “reading archive tip” context.
tests/rebuild_state.rs (1)

227-239: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Two claimed behaviors have no test here.

The PR objectives state that the suite verifies "recovery after interruption" and bounded isolated replays with --stop-epoch. This file tests only the refusal of --stop-epoch in place. It does not test:

  • A successful --stop-epoch run with --target or --ephemeral, including that the rebuilt cursor stays below the archive tip and the tip-equality check is skipped.
  • Recovery after an interrupted in-place rebuild, which is the crash-safety sequence documented in src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs Lines 24-28.

The synthetic fixture builds 3 blocks inside epoch zero, so a meaningful --stop-epoch assertion likely needs a fixture that crosses an epoch boundary.

Do you want me to draft these two tests?

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In `@tests/rebuild_state.rs` around lines 227 - 239, The rebuild-state tests need
coverage for the two documented behaviors missing from
stop_epoch_requires_an_isolated_output: add a successful bounded isolated replay
using --target or --ephemeral with a fixture spanning an epoch boundary,
asserting the rebuilt cursor remains below the archive tip and the tip-equality
check is skipped; also add an interrupted in-place rebuild sequence that resumes
successfully and verifies the recovered state.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/adapters/storage.rs`:
- Around line 665-677: Prevent aliased LogsOnly handles from reaching
ArchiveStore::db_mut: in src/adapters/storage.rs lines 665-677, document or
enforce that logs_only results cannot expose mutable database access; in
src/bin/dolos/data/prune_chain.rs lines 41-49, restrict compaction to owning
Redb handles or make db_mut fallible; apply the same ownership restriction or
fallible access in src/bin/dolos/data/export.rs lines 163-168 for
prepare_archive.

In `@src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs`:
- Around line 71-73: Enforce a minimum chunk size before any destructive work in
run: reject args.chunk == 0 with an error stating that --chunk must be at least
1, while preserving the existing usize argument and normal behavior for positive
values.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs`:
- Around line 211-215: Replace the expect call in the archive tip retrieval flow
with a diagnostic error using the command’s existing bail-style error handling,
while preserving the current success path for Some tip values and the “reading
archive tip” context.

In `@tests/rebuild_state.rs`:
- Around line 227-239: The rebuild-state tests need coverage for the two
documented behaviors missing from stop_epoch_requires_an_isolated_output: add a
successful bounded isolated replay using --target or --ephemeral with a fixture
spanning an epoch boundary, asserting the rebuilt cursor remains below the
archive tip and the tip-equality check is skipped; also add an interrupted
in-place rebuild sequence that resumes successfully and verifies the recovered
state.
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Comment thread src/adapters/storage.rs
Comment thread src/bin/dolos/doctor/rebuild_state.rs
…way from db_mut

Two review findings:

- `--chunk 0` imports no blocks, so the replay ended immediately and the
  command failed on the missing cursor — in place, that is after the WAL
  reset and the state wipe, so a typo cost the operator their instance.
  Refuse it up front, with a test that asserts nothing was touched.

- `logs_only()` clones the archive handle, so a LogsOnly value always
  aliases the Arc<Database> of the store it came from and can never satisfy
  `db_mut` (`Arc::get_mut(..).unwrap()`). Folding it into the Redb arm of
  prune-chain and export made a guaranteed panic look supported; those two
  now refuse it explicitly, and the aliasing is documented on logs_only.

Also swap the archive-tip `expect` for a diagnostic, matching the rest of
the command's operator-facing errors.

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Addressed the two actionable review findings plus the nitpick in 9e55f51.

1. --chunk 0 destroyed the instance (confirmed, fixed). Valid and the most serious of the three: with --chunk 0 the replay's take(0) returned an empty batch immediately, so the command bailed on the missing cursor — in in-place mode that lands after the WAL reset and the state wipe, so a one-character typo left an unusable instance. Now refused up front, before anything destructive, with a regression test (a_zero_chunk_is_refused_before_touching_anything) asserting the instance is byte-for-byte untouched after the refusal.

2. LogsOnly reaching db_mut() (confirmed, fixed). Also valid, and worse than "no live caller reaches it": logs_only() exists precisely to clone a handle while the original stays alive, so a LogsOnly value always aliases the Arc<Database>Arc::get_mut(..).unwrap() in db_mut could never succeed, not merely "whenever a second handle exists". Folding it into the Redb arm of prune-chain and export made a guaranteed panic look like a supported path. Both now refuse it explicitly with an operator-facing message, and the aliasing contract is documented on logs_only() itself.

3. expect on the archive tip (nitpick, taken). Swapped for a bail!, matching the operator-facing error style used everywhere else in the command.

Verification after the fixes: cargo test (full workspace, including the 6-test rebuild_state suite), cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo +nightly fmt --all -- --check all clean locally.


On the failing cargo deny check — not from this PR, and it is not the yanked crate.

The job's tail shows spin 0.9.8 — yanked version, but deny.toml already sets yanked = "warn", so that is not what fails the gate. The actual error is:

error[vulnerability]: h2 unbounded empty DATA frames
  ID: RUSTSEC-2026-0258   (Low severity)

a newly-published advisory against h2, reached via hyper / reqwest / tonic. Evidence it is pre-existing and repo-wide:

  • this PR changes no dependencies at all — git diff main...HEAD -- Cargo.toml Cargo.lock crates/*/Cargo.toml is empty
  • h2 resolves to the same 0.3.26 / 0.4.9 on main as on this branch
  • main's own CI run today fails the same cargo deny (advisories, bans) job, as do several unrelated open branches

So it wants a lockfile bump on main (fixing main and every open PR at once) rather than a dependency change smuggled into a doctor subcommand PR. Happy to open that as a separate PR if wanted.

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