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Casino tables save on the server thread through DurableFiles.write. Each write is a temp file, an fsync, an atomic rename and a parent-directory fsync, so 2 fsyncs; a delete is 1. Almost every table action saved, often twice, and often with bytes identical to what was already on disk:

Action (measured with a counting hook, unless noted) Before After
One chip stake 4 fsyncs (2 writes) 2 (1 write)
One dealt card 4 (2 writes) 0 at once; the table is written at most once per second (2)
3-box blackjack round, private dealer: 6 stakes / close / 8-card deal / stands / settle 24 / 2 / 32 / 8 / 10 = 76 12 / 2 / 0 (+2 at the flush) / 6 / 2 = 24
One ledger-backed money move (guild bank or tax), from the code path 9: intent 2 + "applying" rewrite 2 + table save 2 + identical saveWager 2 + intent delete 1 5: intent 2 + table save 2 + delete 1

On a guild-bank table every box settlement is a ledger move, so a 3-box settle drops from about 27 fsyncs in one tick to about 15.

loadDeferred (every 5 s) also read, parsed and hashed every table file each pass, loaded tables included (about 5 reads, 3 parses and 2+ SHA-256 per loaded table), and only then skipped them.

Changes

A. Skip identical rewrites (TableOwnershipStore.save). After check() confirms the file holds exactly the bytes last seen, the write is skipped if the new bytes hash the same and this process wrote those bytes itself with the whole write, directory flush included, succeeding (Source.durable). Bytes found on disk at load, and bytes left by a failed publication, are written once more first. A failed write never updates sources, so the same bytes are tried again and a following saveWager still throws, which keeps the wager intent. A write that fails after the rename leaves different bytes on disk, so the next save gets a Conflict and holds the table, as before.

B. Batch table changes that move no money (TableManager.saveSoon / flushUnsaved). Card draws (to hands and table piles, including the failure paths that put the card back), card returns, muck (player and table pile), recycle, reshuffleFull, wipeHands, the poker fold in commitStreet (its refund has already saved), and the actives seat added right after a stake (the stake itself has already saved) now mark the table instead of writing it. The hand clock writes marked tables every 20 ticks. onDisable writes them after despawnWorldAll, in a finally, so tables left alone because their money is held still get written. Every money save (moneyMoved, saveWager/checkpoint, session start/end, placement, house changes, payouts, leaving) still writes the whole snapshot and clears the mark. A table that is picked up drops its mark, and the flush skips tables that are no longer loaded.
Nothing reads table files expecting these changes: check() compares the disk with the last bytes written, not with memory, so a waiting change is never taken for an outside edit. Estate planning calls checkpoint (full write) before it freezes a table's source, and every estate idle check reads only ownership, activity and money fields, which are still saved at once.

C. No "applying" intent rewrite (WagerJournal.apply). Once Denars reports APPLIED, only the in-memory state becomes applying, so this process still never posts or delivers that operation again (retryable is false). If the server crashes after that, the file still says prepared; any intent present at load freezes the table for staff review exactly as before, and review uses Denars status. This is not replaced with an unflushed write. One failure path also gets simpler: a disk error at the old rewrite used to freeze the table after Denars had posted but before the items moved. Now the items move, and the later table save fails and freezes it instead. Review is needed either way.
Docs follow-up (not in this PR): projects/Games/docs/WAGER_ENGINE.md in the Docs repo, recovery step 3, says "applying does not prove delivery finished". The intent file now only ever holds prepared, conflict, or a quarantine review state, so that sentence needs the matching change.

D. Deferred loading skips verified loaded tables (TableManager.loadTables). The first loop still runs the full check() (one read and SHA-256) for every loaded table on every pass, so outside edits are caught exactly as quickly as before. I kept the full hash rather than an mtime/size shortcut: it is the guarantee ownershipHealthy relies on, and it is one small read per table, while the waste was in the rest of the loop. A loaded table counts as verified only when check() passed, it is not held (conflict or publication pending), and its last-written row would be a no-op for both GuildTableMigration.prepare and OwnershipMigration.prepare (guild migrated or no guild, staff-mint mode recorded, no owner without a character). For a verified table the pass seeds its ID into the duplicate scan, so another file with the same ID still holds it, and takes the owner character from the checked row, which matches the old row() re-read. It then skips the file. Every other loaded table runs the full old path. loadAll is unchanged.

Crash and money behaviour

Unchanged. Money and its table snapshot are written at the same moments as before. A crash can now lose up to one second of card-only changes. Hands and table piles are never saved, and a table that was in play is reset (refunded and reshuffled) at load, so a restart does not keep those changes anyway. Each flush writes one consistent snapshot, so cards are never duplicated. Note, unchanged by this PR: cards that are in hands when a crash happens are already missing from the saved deck lists, because only remaining/discarded are stored. With batching, that is the deck as of the last flush instead of the last action.

Testing

  • New TableManagerSaveBatchingTest (12 tests): a dealt card is written only at the flush, and only once. The hand clock flushes within 20 ticks. moneyMoved and checkpoint write waiting changes and clear the mark. Muck, full reshuffle and wipeHands reach disk only at the flush. A removed table is not written back. Deferred loading does not re-read a verified loaded table, but still holds it after an outside edit or a duplicate ID, and still restores the owner character.
  • TableOwnershipStoreTest: identical bytes are skipped and changes are written. Bytes found on disk are written once before they count. A failed write is retried and keeps throwing. A write that fails after replacing the file holds the table. source() returns a copy.
  • WagerJournalTest: an applied posting writes its intent once and deletes it. After posting, the file keeps prepared, and a crash at that point leaves a prepared intent that freezes the table after restart without a second post. The old applying assertion is updated.
  • GamesLifecycleTest: disable flushes after despawnWorldAll, even when that throws.
  • Local Windows run of the full suite (with the usual local-only directory-fsync workaround, not committed): 1294 tests, the same 12 Windows-only failures as an origin/main baseline, no new failures. Linux CI is authoritative.

Dev testing on TFMCDev01 follows before this leaves draft.

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Card draws, returns, mucks, recycles, reshuffles, the poker fold commit,
wipeHands and the seat added after a stake now mark the table unsaved;
the hand clock writes marked tables every 20 ticks and onDisable writes
them after the reset. Every money save still writes the whole table and
clears the mark.

TableOwnershipStore.save skips the write when check() has just found the
exact bytes this process last wrote in full. Bytes found on disk, a
failed write or a failed publication never count as written.

Deferred loading no longer re-reads, parses and hashes loaded tables
whose file check() has just verified and that need no migration; the
per-pass full check() of every loaded table stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After Denars applies a posting the journal no longer rewrites the
intent file as "applying". The in-memory state still blocks any second
post or delivery; after a crash the retained "prepared" file freezes
the table for review exactly as before, and review reads Denars status.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Improvements
    • Card, deck and seating changes are now saved in batches, while money-related changes continue to be saved immediately.
    • Pending changes are saved when the game shuts down, even if world clean-up encounters an error.
    • Unchanged table data can be handled without being read again, while changes and duplicate table identifiers still trigger ownership checks.
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    • Wager records remain available for review after an interrupted transaction, helping prevent the same operation from being processed again.

The changes batch persistence for table updates, track durable ownership sources for deferred loading, flush queued changes during shutdown, and retain prepared wager journal files after posting.

Changes: Table persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Durable sources and deferred loading
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/ownership/TableOwnershipStore.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManager.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/ownership/TableOwnershipStoreTest.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManagerSaveBatchingTest.java
Ownership sources track durable writes, avoid repeated writes for identical durable content, and expose copied source rows. Deferred loading reuses eligible verified sources and still checks changed files and duplicate IDs.
Queued table saves and flushes
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManager.java, src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/Games.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManagerSaveBatchingTest.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/GamesLifecycleTest.java
Card, deck, hand, and seating changes queue persistence. The manager flushes queued tables on a 20-tick interval or explicit call. Plugin shutdown flushes after despawning, including when despawning throws.

Wager journal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prepared journal state after posting
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/wager/WagerJournal.java, src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/wager/WagerJournalTest.java
After posting, the in-memory intent changes to applying without updating the journal file, which remains prepared. Tests cover retained intents, blocked follow-up transactions, and successful commit cleanup.

Priority: Low

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

Change: Refactor

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  • TF-Minecraft/Games#47: Changes DurableFiles.write behaviour used by this PR’s durable-write tracking and identical-save handling.

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Dev test (TFMCDev01, 10-29 13:25 UTC, this PR's jar; bot harness ~/perf-1029-test/games.js on tf, based on the coins-off-cards test): PASS

Free-play table: stake coins, deal a board card, stake on the card, add to a heap, stop the session, pick the table up. The table file's rewrites were counted per step (each DurableFiles.write renames a new file into place):

Step games-0.7.1 this PR
stake 3 coins (seats the player, starts the session) 2 2
deal 1 card 2 1 (the 1 s batch)
stake 2 coins on the card 2 1
stake 1 coin on a heap 2 1
session stop 0 0

All placement, dealing, chip-drawing and pickup checks pass on both jars, and the table file is gone after pickup. No Games errors in the Dev log across four restarts.

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- Line 4893: Update save() so it removes the table ID from unsaved only after
ownershipStore().save succeeds; leave the ID queued when the write fails so
later flushes can retry it.
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XxFran10xX and others added 2 commits October 29, 2026 14:52
CodeRabbit on #49: save() and saveWager() cleared the waiting mark before the
write, so a failed write lost the batched card change for good. The mark is
now cleared only after the store wrote the table; a disk failure keeps it, so
the one-second flush retries it. A table that keeps failing warns once and
logs once when it saves again. A non-disk RuntimeException still drops the
mark so one broken table cannot stall the clock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Opus review on #49: a table the ownership store holds (outside edit, duplicate
id, pending estate publication) would fail every one-second retry and be
frozen further on a timer. The flush now skips held tables and keeps their
mark, so the next full save after the hold clears writes the change. Picking a
table up also forgets its failing-save state.

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Dev retest at df3836d (14:13 UTC restart, Games jar sha256 810104b3…):

  • games.js table run: ALL PASS. Table-file rewrites per step match the earlier run of this branch: stake 2, deal 1, stake on card 1, stake on heap 1, session stop 0 (main: 2/2/2/2/0).
  • No Games warnings or errors in the Dev log after the restart or the run.

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Both findings fixed in ca13915 (CodeRabbit confirmed in thread replies); Opus review follow-ups fixed in df3836d; retested on Dev.

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