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First piece of block level dedup.

This does two important things

  1. Chunker splits a stream into content-defined chunks using FastCDC 2020 with normalized chunking at min 8 KiB, target 64 KiB, max 128 KiB.
  2. Freezes that exact boundary calculation behind an append only ID. The ID of this chunker is 1.

Chunker::chunk takes a reader and yields RawChunk { offset, data } in file order. Concatenating the chunks reproduces the input exactly. Chunking is sync and streams with bounded memory (at most one maximum chunk plus a window).

Same bytes with the same chunker id must always produce the same boundaries or deduplication would fail without any errors. golden_fastcdc_boundaries tests exact offset and length pairs to ensure boundaries never shift unintentionally. If boundaries ever move due to an intentional chunker update or a fastcdc upgrade or any other reason, we must set a new chunker ID. Also, ID 0 is permanently reserved, so that zeroed or corrupt metadata cannot point to an actual chunker.

chunker() which maps chunker id to implementation has no callers yet. Added here to ensure that unknown chunkers fail loudly.

Tests ensure (a) exact tiling, where offsets are contiguous, (b) every chunk except the last sits between the min and max size, (c) every chunk's bytes match the input at its offset, for these inputs:

  • Input of all zeros, which doesn't match any mask and cuts at exactly the maximum size every time
  • Empty and sub minimum input
  • A mid file insertion, which must leave at least 80 percent of chunks sharing hashes with the original

This also introduces ChunkedError on the theory that dedup will have its own category of errors. If we want to handle errors differenty, I'm open to ideas.

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  • New Features

    • Added content-defined chunking for efficient block-level deduplication.
    • Added streaming support for processing large files in manageable chunks.
    • Introduced stable chunking configurations and size boundaries for consistent storage behavior.
    • Added support for selecting compatible chunking formats.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved storage-format incompatibility messages with a clear upgrade hint.
    • Added clearer errors for unsupported chunking formats and data-read failures.

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The PR adds a public chunked-storage module with FastCDC v2020 chunking, stable chunker identifiers, structured errors, and tests for boundaries, reconstruction, deduplication stability, and reader failures.

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Chunked storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public chunked storage contracts
Cargo.toml, crates/liboxen/Cargo.toml, crates/liboxen/src/storage.rs, crates/liboxen/src/storage/chunked.rs, crates/liboxen/src/storage/chunked/error.rs, crates/liboxen/src/error.rs
The workspace and liboxen use fastcdc. The public storage module exports chunking types and size constants. ChunkedError integrates with OxenError and reports unknown chunker IDs with an upgrade hint.
Chunker identifier registry
crates/liboxen/src/storage/chunked/registry.rs
ChunkerId assigns stable numeric identifiers. The registry maps GENERIC_FASTCDC_V1 to the FastCDC implementation and rejects reserved or unknown identifiers.
FastCDC chunking implementation
crates/liboxen/src/storage/chunked/chunker.rs
FastCdc2020Chunker implements streaming chunk generation with offsets, raw bytes, configured size limits, and reader-error conversion. Tests validate boundaries, reconstruction, edge cases, insertion stability, and I/O errors.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d0142

The PR freezes chunk boundaries under chunker ID 1, but its FastCDC dependency range may allow a future compatible version to change those boundaries without changing the ID, which could break deduplication compatibility. Merge should wait for the dependency to be pinned or for this risk to be explicitly accepted by the owner.

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  participant Reader
  participant FastCdc2020Chunker
  participant ChunkedError
  Reader->>FastCdc2020Chunker: stream input bytes
  FastCdc2020Chunker->>FastCdc2020Chunker: produce RawChunk values
  FastCdc2020Chunker->>ChunkedError: convert reader failure to ChunkRead
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