## Problem
Historically, the pageserver used an "uninit mark" file on disk for two
purposes:
- Track which timeline dirs are incomplete for handling on restart
- Avoid trying to create the same timeline twice at the same time.
The original purpose of handling restarts is now defunct, as we use
remote storage as the source of truth and clean up any trash timeline
dirs on startup. Using the file to mutually exclude creation operations
is error prone compared with just doing it in memory, and the existing
checks happened some way into the creation operation, and could expose
errors as 500s (anyhow::Errors) rather than something clean.
## Summary of changes
- Creations are now mutually excluded in memory (using
`Tenant::timelines_creating`), rather than relying on a file on disk for
coordination.
- Acquiring unique access to the timeline ID now happens earlier in the
request.
- Creating the same timeline which already exists is now a 201: this
simplifies retry handling for clients.
- 409 is still returned if a timeline with the same ID is still being
created: if this happens it is probably because the client timed out an
earlier request and has retried.
- Colliding timeline creation requests should no longer return 500
errors
This paves the way to entirely removing uninit markers in a subsequent
change.
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Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
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