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
New features:
- Data and metadata checksums!
- Metadata checksums are always used with new disk format
- Data checksums can be turned on with --data_csum_type crc32c for new OSDs
- Checksum block size can be configured
- inmemory_metadata now also affects keeping checksums in memory
- Linux page cache I/O caching support which can be enabled separately for
data, metadata (including checksums) and journal (O_SYNC instead of O_DIRECT)
- Details [here](https://git.yourcmc.ru/vitalif/vitastor/src/branch/master/docs/config/layout-osd.en.md#data_csum_type)
- Backwards compatibility is preserved, you can use new OSDs with old disks
Release also includes bug fixes from [0.9.6](https://git.yourcmc.ru/vitalif/vitastor/releases/tag/v0.9.6).
0.9.6 is moved to "-oldstable" repositories and will be available for some additional time.
- Fix vitastor-disk partition zeroing (sometimes it was writing garbage instead of zeroes)
- Fix incorrect EC space statistics in `vitastor-cli status`
- Several bug fixes for NFS:
- Add . and .. in NFS directory listings
- Return FILE_SYNC from NFS writes if immediate_commit is enabled
- Return the same "verifier" in NFS COMMIT as in NFS WRITE
- Make parallel NFS extending writes work correctly, without conflicts
- Handle parallel NFS extending writes without imposing extra load on etcd
- Support UTF-8 in vitastor-cli table output
- Also allow "0" and "no" as false for inmemory_metadata and inmemory_journal
- Use HDD defaults for HDD-only in automatic `vitastor-disk prepare` mode
- Improve QEMU driver performance by integrating io_uring in it (up to 1.5x total iops improvement)
- Fix QEMU driver deadlocks which started to reproduce in qemu-img after iothread fixes
- Fix `vitastor-cli status` reporting more etcds than actually exists (fix etcd address duplication in config on reload)
- Fix `vitastor-cli ls` crashing on inodes in non-existing pools
- Delete old garbage /pool/stats/ keys for non-existing (deleted) pools
- Reduce memory usage of etcds initialized by make-etcd script
- Fix OSDs almost always crashing on etcd restart due to "revisions were compacted" (support reloading state from etcd)
- Fix a crash and a stall possible mostly in HDD setups with small journal and big (512k, 900k) random writes
- Add notes about HDDs to documentation. You are officially allowed to use HDD-only Vitastor with HGST/Toshiba/EXOS :)
- Add patch for libvirt 9.0
- Add support for Proxmox VE 8.0
- Fix compatibility of the QEMU driver with iothread (QEMU rebuilds are coming)
- Fix vitastor-cli rm-data/rm/merge hanging when some OSDs are down.
Allow deletions in unclean cluster at the cost of some data possibly
"reappearing" when those OSDs start back. In that case you can just repeat
the deletion request using rm-data.
- A bunch of bug fixes for snapshots:
- Fix snapshot reads often not working at all with snapshot chain size > 2
- Fix optimized snapshot data merge (children to parent)
- Fix updating of image name index key during optimized merge
- Fix auto-selection preventing the use of optimized merge with only 1 snapshot
- Fix incorrect CAS retries during snapshot merge
- Fix snapshot merge progress reporting
- Fix primary_read bitmap buffers use-after-free which could lead to
incorrect allocation map reads
- Remove /usr/local/bin path from make-etcd
- Some documentation fixes
- Measure and report scrub I/O statistics in vitastor-cli status
- Make aggregated statistics in vitastor-cli status much smoother
(first derive, then sum instead of first summing and then deriving)
- Fix an old rare bug leading to journal corruption
(try to use scrub if you think you're affected...)
- Do not start EC PGs without at least <data chunks> OSDs in each old set
(prevents spurious read errors with EC during reconnections/restarts)
- Fix failed assert(!scrub_list_op) on OSD restart with pending scrubs
- Fix future planned scrubs not starting because of incorrect time comparison
- Build packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Fix "Client XX command out of sync" messages sometimes happening on OSD reconnections
- Fix a bug where EC reads parallel with writes to the same object failed with -ERANGE error
- Slightly reduce the amount of metadata writes during journal flushing
- Correctly unmap NBD volumes when Proxmox forces map_volume use (with SWTPM and maybe some other cases)
New features:
- Scrubbing! Check documentation: [auto_scrub](src/branch/master/docs/config/osd.en.md#auto_scrub)
- Document online-updatable configuration parameters
Bug fixes:
- Fix NaN during PG optimisation if there are nonexisting OSDs in node_placement
- Fix monitor crash on pool deletion
- Clear journal_device and meta_device before initialising the next OSD in automatic mode
- Sync unsynced deletes before overwriting them with a lower version
(reproducted mostly/only after scrubbing)
- The tests are now stable and run in a CI system based on Gitea CI
- The release includes final bug fixes for EC:
- Implement missing EC recovery of allocation bitmap when built with ISA-L
- Fix broken snapshot export with EC (allocation bitmap reads were giving incorrect results previously)
- Also fixed bugs manifesting under heavy load:
- Fix monitor possibly applying incorrect PG history on retries
- Fix monitor incorrectly changing PG count when last_clean_pgs contains less PGs than the new number
- Allow writes to wait for free space again, but now correctly (previously dropped in 0.8.2)
- Fix a rare segfault in client (handle client stop during incoming stream handling in 1 more place)
- Make monitor correctly handle etcd connection errors - it could die instead of connecting to another etcd
- Fix OSD rarely being unable to report PG states after a PG was taken over by another OSD
- Fixed return code for incomplete EC objects (now EIO) and made cluster client retry this error
- Made other small changes for tests: timeouts, nice/ionice for etcd, waiting conditions, NBD device checks and so on
- Fix vitastor-cli rm/rm-data broken in 0.8.6 (missing messenger initialization)
- Prepare OSD read handler for upcoming version with scrub - allow "secondary reads" to return errors
- Fix OSDs re-peering PGs infinitely with a big number of PGs (reproduced in test_add_osd)
- Fix another variant of flusher sync-waiting stall (reproduced in test_write)
- Fix other tests in tests/ (will add them to Gitea CI soon)
- Add patches for QEMU 6.2-8.0
- Fix QEMU driver compatibility with QEMU 8.0
- Build packages for RHEL 9 clones (based on AlmaLinux 9)
Vitaliy Filippov