New features:
- RDMA without ODP - much faster and all cards are now supported, not just Mellanox
- VDUSE in CSI - faster, more stable and can even recover after CSI pod restart!
- Reserve journal space for stabilize requests dynamically to prevent stalls under load with EC
- Raise default NBD timeout from 30 to 300 seconds and allow to take it from /etc/vitastor/vitastor.conf
- Remove explicit etcdUrl/etcdPrefix K8S storage class parameter support to prevent
etcd migration issues for volumes created with these parameters
- Support QEMU 8.1 and pve-qemu 8.1
Bug fixes:
- Fix RDMA connection (and thus memory) leak
- Fix rare crashes under load due to incorrect io_uring queue size tracking
- Fix monitor statistics aggregation in case of empty /osd/stats keys
- Fix crash on unknown long argument to vitastor-disk
- Allow trailing comma in JSONs again
- Fix crash on attempts to dump a long listing of objects "to stabilize" or "to rollback" in a slow op
New features:
- Implement CSI volume expansion
- Implement CSI volume snapshots
- CSI driver now requires Kubernetes >= 1.20
Bug fixes:
- Important bug fix for EC: fix EC n+k, k>=2 read recovery in ISA-L version returning
incorrect data when reading at least the second chunk out of multiple missing chunks
without reading the first one. All users of EC n+k, k>=2 should upgrade as soon as
possible, and upgrade should be conducted with downtime: first stop all clients
(VMs/containers), then all OSDs, then upgrade and restart everything.
- Fix unstable statistics aggregation in monitor (affecting vitastor-cli status and df)
- Make udev not wait for OSDs to start during boot
- Do not report negative numbers of offline PGs in vitastor-cli status when changing PG count
- Report both old and new PG counts in vitastor-cli df when changing it
- Fix OSDs sometimes not starting with "The code only supports journal versions 1 and 2,
but it is 2 on disk" error after upgrading from pre-1.0 versions and letting OSDs run
for some time
- Fix monitors sometimes returning old PG count back after OSD configuration changes
- Make monitor PG changes more stable and timeout errors less probable
New features:
- Implement [client writeback cache](docs/config/client.en.md#client_enable_writeback)
- Add the third I/O mode: [O_DIRECT|O_SYNC](docs/config/osd.en.md#data_io) (good for Optane)
- Reduce load on etcd by splitting OSD lease and statistics reporting intervals:
[etcd_stats_interval](docs/config/osd.en.md#etcd_stats_interval) (default 30 sec)
- Make MON automatically filter OSDs by layout (block_size/immediate_commit/bitmap_granularity)
to prevent "refusing to start PGs of this pool" errors on misconfiguration
- Support running fio benchmarks on systems without io_uring
- Make QEMU driver compatible with QEMU 8.1
- Document usage of [vhost-user-blk](docs/usage/qemu.en.md#vhost-user-blk)
Bug fixes:
- Fix resizing disks in QEMU driver (for example, in Proxmox)
- Fix "unexpected result" in Proxmox driver by making CLI flush output on exit
- Remove unneeded block_size mismatch warnings on pools without matching PGs
- Fix possible segfault in vitastor-cli ls -l (usually with deleted pools)
- Fix QEMU driver compatibility with systems without io_uring
- Fix monitor eating 100% CPU when etcd is down (caused by infinite retries)
- Fix potential incorrect write processing with snapshots (not caught in tests
but could probably lead to client hangs)
- Fix buffer insertion in cluster_client (not caught in tests but could
probably lead to incorrect writes in rare cases)
- Fix rare OSD crash during sync operation processing
- Fix a reenterability issue in cluster_client not reproducible in QEMU/fio,
but reproducible with the currently developed K/V database implementation
- Fix deletion of the first modified object - OSDs could crash if you modified
the same object a lot of times, then deleted it, and then modified it again
- Fix the fio_sec_osd test tool
- Disabled by default, enable with client_enable_writeback=true
- Even then only enabled in FIO when -direct is disabled and in QEMU when
block device cache is enabled in settings
- Can also be enabled in other clients like vitastor-cli using parameter
client_writeback_allowed=true, but not recommended
Monitor could deceive itself by immediately saving PG configuration changes
which weren't applied to etcd yet in memory, and apply incorrect PG history
changes next time if the first update fails.
This usually only happened under heavy load and was caught in CI. :-)
Vitaliy Filippov