INTR 451 - Remove hardlinks from pack publishing and tool - #129
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Remove hardlinks from pack publishing and tool materialization
Motivation
Hardlinks are not part of the filesystem surface we expect browser-oriented storage backends to provide. Removing this requirement narrows the filesystem API needed by these workflows and unblocks the broader work to make the storage layer runtime-agnostic.
Summary
Removes the two remaining hardlink requirements:
Pack publishing now reserves transfer IDs through exclusive staging-directory creation, preventing concurrent publishers from overwriting each other. Partial publication failures clean up the staged files and unindexed pack where possible.
The tool-package cache still avoids downloading and extracting packages repeatedly, but deployment layouts now contain independent file copies. This increases disk usage and write I/O in exchange for requiring fewer filesystem capabilities.
This is a prerequisite for making the storage layer runtime-agnostic; it does not introduce the pluggable filesystem API itself.
Testing
make allpasses: