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Christian Schwarz 9c6ff3aa2b refactor(BufferedWriter): flush task owns the VirtualFile & abstraction for cleanup on drop (#11549)
Main change:

- `BufferedWriter` owns the `W`; no more `Arc<W>`
- We introduce auto-delete-on-drop wrappers for `VirtualFile`.
  - `TempVirtualFile` for write-only users
- `TempVirtualFileCoOwnedByEphemeralFileAndBufferedWriter` for
EphemeralFile which requires read access to the immutable prefix of the
file (see doc comments for details)
- Users of `BufferedWriter` hand it such a wrapped `VirtualFile`.
- The wrapped `VirtualFile` moves to the background flush task.
- On `BufferedWriter` shutdown, ownership moves back.
- Callers remove the wrapper (`disarm_into_inner()`) after doing final
touches, e.g., flushing index blocks and summary for delta/image layer
writers.

If the BufferedWriter isn't shut down properly via
`BufferedWriter::shutdown`, or if there is an error during final
touches, the wrapper type ensures that the file gets unlinked.

We store a GateGuard inside the wrapper to ensure that the Timeline is
still alive when unlinking on drop.

Rust doesn't have async drop yet, so, the unlinking happens using a
synchronous syscall.
NB we don't fsync the surrounding directory.
This is how it's been before this PR; I believe it is correct because
all of these files are temporary paths that get cleaned up on timeline
load.
Again, timeline load does not need to fsync because the next timeline
load will unlink again if the file reappears.

The auto-delete-on-drop can happen after a higher-level mechanism
retries.
Therefore, we switch all users to monotonically increasing, never-reused
temp file disambiguators.

The aspects pointed out in the last two paragraphs will receive further
cleanup in follow-up task
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11692

Drive-by changes:
- It turns out we can remove the two-pronged code in the layer file
download code.
No need to make this a separate PR because all of production already
uses `tokio-epoll-uring` with the buffered writer for many weeks.


Refs
- epic https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/9868
- alternative to https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/11544
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