New features:
- Implement "hierarchical failure domains" and other complex distribution rules, for example
EC 4+2 over 3 DC, with 2 chunks per each DC ([documentation](docs/config/pool.en.md#level_placement))
- Make OSDs handle ENOSPC - now cluster stays online even if some OSDs fill up
to 100 %, only writes requiring free space hang
- Implement Stage/Unstage & volume locking for CSI to prevent parallel mounting
and/or modifications of the same volume
- Warn about full and almost full OSDs in vitastor-cli status
- Add an experimental NBD netlink map mode as an option ([documentation](docs/usage/nbd.en.md))
- Add --pg parameter to vitastor-cli describe, print objects with 0x in human-readable format too
- Add [administration docs](docs/usage/admin.en.md)
Bug fixes:
- Fix client operation retry timeout - previously the timeout wasn't applied and writes were
retries almost instantly
- Fix monitors crashing on invalid pool configurations
- Fix journaling - make each journal write wait for all previous journal writes
- Fix monitor thinking that OSD weight is 0 after deleting /osd/config/ key online
- Fix a write stall caused by flusher possibly not trimming journal on rollback
- Set 32k csum_block_size for HDD by default in vitastor-disk
After half a year of hard work, VitastorFS is finally here ! :-)
New features:
- VitastorFS, a full-featured clustered (read-write-many) file system.
Documentation: [VitastorFS](docs/usage/nfs.en.md)
- Embedded key-value database implementation based on Parallel Optimistic B-Tree
algorithm and used for the metadata of VitastorFS
- Pool management commands in vitastor-cli (create-pool, list-pools, rm-pool, modify-pool).
Thanks MIND Software (https://mindsw.io) for their contribution!
[Documentation](docs/usage/cli.en.md#create-pool)
Bug fixes:
- Fix a very rare "infinite loop" in the client library
- Fix a rare OSD hang on during start when zeroing out bad metadata entries left from the previous run
- Do not use \r if output is not a terminal (should fix unexpected job output in proxmox)
- Fix rm/rm-data error return code, add --down-ok option to bypass the error
- Add EIO retry timeout and allow to disable these retries, rename up_wait_retry_interval to client_retry_interval
- Add ubuntu jammy build
- Wait for blockstore initialisation before starting OSD (prevent timeouts when init takes time)
- Fix a rare use-after-free in automatic sync after delete in blockstore
- Fix another old "BUG: Attempt to overwrite used offset" in a very simple
case: bs=4k rw=write iodepth=16 from OSD start; add this case to tests
- Fix a rare crash with "unexpected state during flush: 0x51" possible with
EC since 1.4.2 during rebalance and OSD outages
- Fix a rare write stall with EC & immediate_commit=none caused by sync
operations reserving unneeded space in the journal
- Fix 32-bit build warnings, most in printf/scanf format strings
Unwavering stabilization of 1.4.x, continued :-)
- Include the accidentally lost part of 1.4.5 journal trimming fix
- Fix a possible OSD crash with "BUG: Attempt to overwrite used offset"
which was probably present for long time, but became apparent after
fixing flapping tests in CI
- Fix remaining flapping tests in CI. It was the first time when tests
actually passed without retries :-)
- Fix a write stall caused by incorrect journal trimming introduced in 1.4.4 :)
- Fix PGs sometimes hanging in "starting" state on mass OSD restarts
- Fix a rare crash with "map::at" during OSD pings
- Use new defaults for non-capacitor (desktop) SSDs - improves T1Q256 random write from ~6k iops to ~45k iops
- Make journal_trim_interval configurable
A couple of fixes for EC pools
- Fix a segfault possible on partial EC overwrite in 1234 -> 5030 rebalance scenario
- Fix two problems leading to EC pools stalling on rebalance & parallel sudden stops
of OSDs, for example during a sudden poweroff of a host:
- Recovery auto-tuning (1.4.0 feature) could apply too large delays and stall
the EC journal - fixed by limiting delays with a new recovery_tune_sleep_cutoff_us
parameter (10 seconds by default) and applying recovery pauses before write
operations, not after them, to not occupy space in the journal for long time
- Dynamic journal space reservation (1.3.0 feature) wasn't accounting new writes
when checking the limit so OSDs could still fill the journal fully and stall -
fixed by including new writes into the limit
- Print etcd dbSize instead of dbSizeInUse in status
Hotfix for hotfix O:-)
- "Write stall fix" was incomplete and EC write stalls could
continue even on 1.4.2. Now they're finally fixed O:-)
- Make monitor ignore statistics of stopped OSDs. Previously if you stopped all
OSDs the last total I/O numbers would remain the same indefinitely
- Log to systemd by default
- Fix excessive autosyncs after every operation with disabled immediate_commit (introduced in 1.1.0)
- Fix a possible write stall with EC due to the lack of OSD wakeup after stabilizing previous writes
- Change sync operation semantics as a final fix to possible write stalls with EC and disabled immediate_commit
- Sync after deleting data in CLI rm / rm-data if immediate_commit is disabled
- Fix OSDs ignoring syncs & autosyncs for delete operations
- Fix OSD space reporting sometimes adding garbage zeros for deleted inodes (causing extra pool/stats etcd keys for deleted pools)
- Speed up monitor failover - change default etcd_mon_ttl from 30 to 5 seconds
- Speed up operation retries - change default up_wait_retry_interval to 50 ms
- Add patch for libvirt 9.10
- Fix a monitor crash on primary OSD switching introduced in 1.4.0
- Fix "partly outside array bounds" warnings for GCC 12 in cpp-btree
- Fix a realloc memory leak in theory possible with too large listings (OSD_OP_LIST)
New features:
- Intelligent recovery/rebalance speed auto-tuning to reduce its impact on clients (see README -> Features)
- Auto-restoration of dead VDUSE daemons in CSI plugin
- Add vitastor-disk update-sb command
- Update QEMU for Debian Bookworm to 8.1 and use it for CSI plugin
Bug fixes:
- Fix pools SOMETIMES staying inactive after stopping a node due to OSDs not reacting
to PG state changes caused by incorrect full reload of state from etcd on reconnection
- Make monitors retry pool configuration changes quickier which fixes them being unable
to apply changes when an ongoing rebalance is quickly making a lot of PGs clean
- Fix CSI plugin not accepting array of strings as etcd address in /etc/vitastor/vitastor.conf
- Allow multiple interfaces with the same IP address, for "simple routed" full mesh network
- Do not ignore loopback addresses for OSD network (to make ECMP setups with frr possible)
- Fix a rare client crash during OSD reconnections
- Only treat data partitions as existing OSDs in vitastor-disk prepare
- Remove etcd parameter from default command examples
- Fix reported free space sometimes changing non-immediately after deletion of data from OSDs
- Fix a possible OSD crash on print_slow when bs_op is NULL
- Use the same etcd_ws_keepalive_interval in mon as in OSD
- Fix mon not using values from config when /config/global is not present
- Remove pve-storage-portal-dns-list format for vitastor_etcd_address
- Parse log_level in cluster_client
- Fix vitastor-nbd image existence check not working because of non-zeroed inode_watch fields
- Do not warn on EPIPE in client unless log_level is raised explicitly
- Fix incorrect error in CSI when searching for the device in /sys
- Remove 2 last prints to stdout in etcd_state_client
- Fix a possible OSD crash when checking corrupted journal entries
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)
This release includes a bunch of important bugfixes for erasure-coded setups
with disabled immediate_commit. After these fixes, "test_heal" OSD killing test
now passes fine with EC:
- Fix cluster write stalls with "Error while doing flush on OSD xx: -16 (Device or resource busy)"
in OSD logs possible in EC setups with disabled immediate_commit by selectively
syncing nonsynced objects on STABILIZE/ROLLBACK (https://github.com/vitalif/vitastor/issues/51)
- Fix other EC + disabled immediate_commit problems:
- Fix "opcode=5 retval=-2" errors happening on SYNC retries
- Fix non-working "pagination" during PG dirty object flushing
- Fix write operations not continued correctly after dirty object flushing
- Fix incorrect parity read-modify-write calculation when writing into a lost chunk
- Fix OSDs losing left_on_dead PG state of non-clean PGs and thus not removing junk data in the cluster
- Fix a small memory leak caused by bad indexing of EC recovery matrices
- Fix a rare use-after-free in cluster_client caused by a reenterability issue
- Fix vitastor-cli create command syntax in the CSI driver
- Allow to start OSDs without local store for tests
- Fix memory allocation error in disk_tool_meta for non-standard metadata block sizes
- Fix delete operations received before loading pool metadata crashing OSDs with "null pointer exception"
- Improve "theoretical performance" Russian documentation
New features:
- Implement online configuration update for some parameters. Documentation is coming soon :)
Important fixes:
- Fix possibly incorrect EC parity chunk updates with EC n+k, k > 1 and when
the first parity chunk is missing
Minor fixes and improvements:
- Fix incorrect EC free space statistics in vitastor-cli df output
- Speedup vitastor-cli startup in clusters with RDMA
- Remove unused PG "peered" state (previously used to update PG epoch)
- Use sfdisk with just --json in vitastor-disk (--dump --json isn't needed)
- Allow trailing comma in sfdisk output (fixes sfdisk 2.36 compatibility)
- Slightly improve RDMA send/receive code
- Reduce RDMA memory consumption by default (rdma_max_recv/send = 16/8)
- Use vitastor-cli instead of direct etcd interaction in the CSI driver
- Fix a possible "double free" bug in the client library happening on OSD restart
- Fix a possible write hang on PG history update when only epoch is changed
- Fix incorrect systemd target "local.target" in mon/make-etcd
- Allow "content" option in PVE storage plugin to allow to enable containers
- Build client library without tcmalloc which fixes "attempt to free invalid pointer"
errors when, for example, trying to run QEMU with both Vitastor and Ceph RBD disks
New features:
- Implement QCOW2 image/snapshot export via qemu-img (bdrv_co_block_status in the driver)
- Remove OSDs from PG history during `vitastor-cli rm-osd` to prevent `left_on_dead` PG states after deletion
- Add a new recovery_pg_switch setting to mix all PGs during recovery, to almost
fully reduce the probability of ENOSPC during rebalance
- Introduce partial ENOSPC ("OSD is full") handling - now ENOSPC doesn't turn
into cascades of crashes
- Add migration support to Proxmox VE Vitastor driver
- Track last_clean_pgs on a per-pool basis thus reducing data movement in a cluster
with pools remaining unclean/degraded for a long time
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug where monitor could generate degraded PGs if one of the hosts had no OSDs
- Fix a bug where monitor could skip PG redistribution with a lot of OSDs in cluster
- Report PG history synchronously on the first write, which improves PG consistency
and availability at the same time, because history now gets reported correctly
and doesn't get reported without the need for it
- Fix possible write and recovery stalls which could happen in a cluster with both EC and replicated pools
- Make OSD and monitors sanitize & deduplicate PG history items in etcd
- Fix non-working OSD peer config safety check
- Fix a rare journal flush stall where flushing wasn't activated with full journal, but with empty flush queue
- Fix builds without ISA-L (jerasure-only) crashing with EC N+K, K>=2 due to the lack of 16-byte buffer alignment
- Fix a possible crash for EC N+K, K>=2 when calculating a parity chunk with previous parity chunk missing
- Fix a bug where vitastor-disk purge with suppressed warnings didn't work
- Implement a new "vitastor-disk purge" command to remove OSDs with safety checks
- Implement a new "vitastor-cli rm-osd" command to only remove OSD metadata from etcd
- Fix a bug where the monitor could ignore OSD removal and other /osd/stats key changes
- Fix a bug where garbage could be returned when reading objects being written at the same time
- Fix a rare write stall where journal space could be not reclaimed where there
were no new operations in the flush queue
- Fix a rare peering stall caused by a previous long listing operations queues limiting attempt
- Fix total object count statistic in OSD on object creation
- Add missing offset&len into vitastor-disk dump-journal for big_writes, fix JSON format
- Make vitastor-cli print help on missing command
- Make vitastor-cli translate all '-' to '_' in CLI options
- Fix QEMU driver compatibility with QEMU 7.0 and < 2.9
- Add patches for pve-qemu-kvm 7.1 (PVE 7.3) and pve-qemu-kvm 6.2 (PVE 7.2)
- Fix Proxmox driver location in the pve-storage-vitastor package
- Disable HDD autodetection in non-hybrid mode
- Explicitly warn about a buggy kernels on -EAGAIN in io_uring
- Final fix for the lack of zeroing out of old metadata entries
(do not crash with "big_write journal_entry was allocated over another object"
in some cases after an unclean OSD shutdown)
- Wait for data writes before fsyncing data if data fsync is enabled
- Never try to wait for free space inside blockstore thus stalling OSDs
- Fix a rare crash in osd_peering due to callback ordering
- Fix a rare duplication of ping & op message IDs
- Fix a rare use-after-free during pings
- Add --force to vitastor-disk read-sb
- Make vitastor-disk dump metadata object IDs in hex, add forgotten commas
- Fix vitastor-disk SCSI disk cache check
- Remove an additional data copy operation when flushing journal (should
slightly increase write performance)
- Fix a bug where new writes in the inmemory_journal=false mode could overwrite
the data currently read by a parallel read operation
- Fix degraded parity writes for EC N+K when K>1 where the bug could also lead
to an "assertion failed" error
- Fix missing journal space check for "big" writes which could lead to
"prefill_single_journal_entry(): assertion failed..." error in OSD
- Fix possible "assertion failed: next->prev_wait >= 0" in client in rare cases
- Fix missing "len" field in vitastor-disk write-journal big_writes
- Fix possible crash of a full OSD (ENOSPC)
- Fix CSI build scripts to include newest packages every time
- Fix CSI endpoint in the liveness probe manifest
- Implement automatic OSD activation via udev and simple on-disk superblock storage
- Add a new `vitastor-disk` tool and merge all disk-related functionality there.
Now it can prepare new OSD disks, upgrade plain old systemd units to the new scheme,
resize OSD data area, manage OSD services by disk paths, manage superblocks,
automatically check and disable disk cache, dump and write back journal and metadata.
- Add a documentation section about `vitastor-disk` (read it if you want details!)
- Install systemd services during package installation instead of the older method
of manually creating them via separate shell scripts
- Add a new `make-etcd` script that reuses /etc/vitastor/vitastor.conf to configure etcd
- Allow to configure block_size, bitmap_granularity and immediate_commit per-pool
- Fix "fatal error: tried to overwrite non-zero metadata entry" which was possible
in some cases after unclean OSD shutdown (caused by old metadata entries not being zeroed)
Vitaliy Filippov
idelson
Zibort Cloud