etcd connection stability, clang & elbrus support
- Fix build under CLang and Elbrus LCC compilers, making Vitastor compatible
with Elbrus CPUs :)
- Completely fix the bug where OSDs didn't connect to peers and incorrectly marked
PGs as incomplete
- Limit I/O depth for deletes the same way as for small writes. Makes OSD crashes
with "Assertion failed: sqe != NULL" during image deletion go away
- Fix a very old, but rare, journaling bug (credits to https://github.com/mirrorll)
- Fix flushing of unclean journaled objects leading to OSDs sometimes hanging
after failover in EC setups (bug was introduced in 0.6.7)
- Fix several problems that could prevent smooth operation of a Vitastor cluster
under the condition of partial etcd failure:
- OSDs could randomly fail due to too strict error handling
- New clients and OSDs could be unable to start because of the lack of retries
- CLI could fail some commands because of the lack of retries
- Monitor could stop receiving state updates because of the lack of websocket pings
- Fix monitor being unable to rebalance PGs after a downscale of pool pg_size (3->2)
- Exit with failure when trying to nbd map or benchmark a non-existing image
- Use HTTP keep-alive for etcd connections
- Allow to configure etcd request timeouts and retries
- Allow to configure NBD timeout, max devices and partitions, and set default to
up to 64 devices with up to 3 partitions each
- Slightly reduce journaling write amplification (requires no_same_sector_overwrites=false)
- Fix listen_backlog (it was 0) because it could more than halve OSD socket send speed
- Support IPv6 OSD addresses
- Do not try to initialize client in simple-offsets
- Fix OSDs sometimes marking PGs incomplete instead of trying to connect with peers
- Allow to configure OSD placement in node_placement
- Allow to run with 4k sector size block devices. Natural, but it was forbidden
- Implement a storage plugin for Proxmox. Now you can use Vitastor with Proxmox!
- Implement `vitastor-cli df` (pool space usage statistics) command
- Add glob pattern support for `vitastor-cli ls`
- Fix several bugs in other CLI commands (resize, create --parent, modify --readonly)
- Use 512 byte logical block size in QEMU driver by default (and thus don't require to set it in QEMU options)
New features:
- Build Vitastor driver as part of QEMU
- Implement renaming images in CLI (vitastor-cli modify --rename)
- Add vitastor-cli alloc-osd and simple-offsets commands and use them in make-osd,
thus removing the dependency on etcdctl
- Make monitor remove stale deleted inode statistics from etcd automatically
- Implement OSD address selection from a subnet, thus removing the need to specify
OSD addresses in startup scripts explicitly
Bug fixes:
- Fix client failover in case of etcd shutdown or crash (make client survive etcd failures)
- Stick to the last live etcd in OSD and mon to prevent random failures when one of etcds is down
- Fix incorrect copying of data from journal to the data device which could lead to data corruption
- Prefer local etcd IPs in OSD
- Remove the total PG count restriction in optimize_change which was sometimes leading
to inability to redistribute PGs over OSDs
- Fix error response parsing on a failed pg state report
- Fix slow linear writes with RDMA by changing default buffer settings
- Fix possible 'TypeError' in openstack nova when using Vitastor cinder driver
- Fix bugs in vitastor-cli create, ls, rm, modify commands
Patch changes:
- Add a patch for libvirt 7.6
- Add patches for QEMU 6.0 and 6.1
- Fix config file path XML location parsing in libvirt patches
- Replace _ with - in QEMU options
- Fix possible 'TypeError' in openstack nova when using Vitastor cinder driver
- Fix possible crashes of QEMU block driver in case of incorrect options
- Implement CLI commands for listing, viewing I/O statistics, creating,
snapshotting, cloning, resizing and modifying images. All these operations
are covered by 3 commands: ls, create, modify
- Implement an important fix to prior OSD set tracking for PGs. The previous
version had an issue which could lead to data loss due to an OSD with older
copy of the data thinking it has the newest copy
- Fix I/O statistics aggregation in the monitor
- Several minor fixes for Cinder driver
- Fix QEMU driver to be compatible with QEMU 2.x > 2.0
- Fix stalls sometimes possible in configurations without immediate_commit due
to insufficient amount of automatic internal fsync operations
- Add `vita` alias for `vitastor-cli`
- New command-line tool: vitastor-cli
- Implement layer (snapshot/clone) merge and delete
- Remove 'bool' from the C header
- Fix a very rare flusher stall
- More diagnostics now printed for slow ops in the log
- Basic support for OpenStack: Cinder driver, patches for Nova and libvirt
- Add missing "image" and "config_path" QEMU options
- Calculate aggregate per-pool statistics in monitor
- Implement writes with Check-And-Set semantics
- Add a C wrapper library with public header
For CentOS 7 it also requires newer rdma-core as CentOS 7's native version doesn't have
implicit ODP support. The updated version is already uploaded into the vitastor repo.
Warning: upgrading from 0.5.x is currently not supported!
Please create an issue if you really need upgrade capability.
New features:
- Snapshots and Copy-on-Write clones
- Inode (image) names
- Inode I/O and space statistics
- Write throttling for smoothing random write workloads in SSD+HDD configurations
Another bunch of fixes, including important ones. Now OSDs are stable in SSD+HDD
configurations and everything is mostly ready for the merge of master branch.
Features:
- Add min_flusher_count configuration (good for HDDs)
- Shuffle PGs for better data device utilisation
- Make OSDs benefit from the immediate_commit=small setting if it's applicable
Bug fixes:
- Rework client code to fix write ordering during operation replay
- Rework error handling code so OSDs don't crash in reaction to a crash of their peer OSDs
- Fix several block layer problems related to the journal, some of which
were leading to double allocations of the same block during journal replay
- Fix monitors crashing during the removal of OSD keys from etcd
- Fix data fsyncs being incorrectly disabled when only disable_journal_fsync was set
- Always zero out unused part of request/reply headers
- Fix some theoretically possible read/write ordering issues
- Don't try to "recover" misplaced objects if it would make them degraded
- Fix heartbeats sometimes preventing OSD to establish connections
The version seems to be stable after this bunch of fixes :)
- Fix delete & write operation ordering during rebalance to not lose objects in the immediate_commit=off mode
- Fix a possible crash caused by very high iodepths
- Re-distribute PG primaries over OSDs that come up after a short downtime
- Allow to specify etcd URLs for OSDs with http://, do not die with a strange error if -etcd option is missing for fio
- Fix a journal flushing deadlock which sometimes occurred in the immediate_commit=off mode
- Fix a bug where OSDs could hang if the data device filled up
- Fix an allocator bug where it was unable to allocate up to last (n%64) data device blocks
- Fix monitor crash that occurred on removal of some etcd keys
- Fix a bug where PGs could remain incomplete due to incorrect PG history with just zeroes in osd_sets
- Fix two monitor bugs which led to objects being "logically lost" (physically
present on some secondary OSDs while primary doesn't know about it) after multiple
interrupted rebalancings
- Implement "no_recovery" and "no_rebalance" flags
- Add heartbeats (fixes failover in case of network issues or offline nodes)
- Fix a bug where a PG could incorrectly become listed as 'incomplete' if historical osd_sets
included a set with the the PG's primary OSD as the only alive one
- Use osd_out_time = 10 minutes by default instead of 30 minutes
- Make monitors stick to a single selected etcd URL on start and not try to select random ones
on every request - this was leading to etcd interaction errors when some etcds were unavailable
- Fix multiple bugs leading to OSDs sometimes being unable to correctly activate PGs
when a lot of PG peering events occurred in a small amount of time
- Fix a bug where OSDs could list incomplete object versions during peering. The bug
manifested with "local rollback operation failed" messages in OSD logs
- Fix a bug where misplaced chunks for degraded and incomplete objects were not removed
from extra OSDs during recovery
- Fix incorrect PG history configuration resulting in OSDs being unable to find some
of the objects after a PG count change
- Simplify block layer write ordering logic
- Avoid extra data move when a lot of OSDs are first stopped for long time and then restarted
- Fix incorrect degraded & misplaced object statistics after a completed rebalance
- Fix incorrect usage of pg_minsize instead of the minimal possible object chunk count in EC pools
- Fix operation statistics
- Fix a rebalance hang introduced in 0.5.5
- Test PG count changes with actual data moving
- Fix a possible 'unexpected pg state: 0' error during PG count change
- Transition to CMake build system
- Fix Monitor being unable to change PG sizes
- Fix PG optimizer not using some OSDs in some cases
- Fix inability to change PG count online
- Improve journal flusher performance
- Add a little better systemd unit generator
- Use w=8 with jerasure (breaking change for EC pools)
VNPL 1.1 is slightly reworded to make it clear that proprietary software
interacting with Vitastor and providing some kind of service to end users isn't
a "Proxy Program" if it's not specially designed to be used with Vitastor.
For example, Windows OS running in a virtual machine stored in a Vitastor
cluster clearly isn't.