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Epic: Implement GalleonFS Enterprise-Grade Distributed Storage System
π― Project Overview
GalleonFS is the core distributed storage service for the OmniCloud platform, designed to provide zettabyte-scale storage with enterprise-class performance, security, and reliability. This system will replace traditional storage solutions like Ceph with a modern, container-native architecture built in Rust, optimized specifically for Linux environments.
Key Objectives
- Superior Performance: >10M IOPS per node, sub-100ΞΌs latency
- Infinite Scale: Support for 10,000+ nodes and exabyte-scale deployments
- Absurdly Large Volumes: Individual volumes spanning multiple devices and machines
- Enterprise Security: Hardware-accelerated encryption, multi-tenancy, compliance
- Zero Configuration: Self-discovering, self-configuring, self-healing
- Container Native: Deep integration with OmniCloud orchestrator
- Linux Optimized: Maximum performance using Linux-specific technologies
ποΈ Architecture Overview
Core Design Principles
- Unified Codebase: Single Rust monorepo with feature flags for different components
- Container-First: All services deployed as lightweight Docker containers
- Linux-Optimized: io_uring, eBPF, SPDK, RDMA for maximum performance
- Multi-Device Volumes: Volumes can span thousands of devices across hundreds of machines
- Multi-Interface: Block, Object, File, and Container APIs from unified storage engine
- ML-Optimized: Machine learning for placement, performance, and failure prediction
System Components
graph TB
subgraph "Control Plane"
CO[GalleonFS Coordinator]
PE[Placement Engine]
MS[Metadata Store]
VT[Volume Topology Manager]
end
subgraph "Data Plane - Node 1"
SN1[Storage Node 1]
DEV1["/dev/nvme0n1<br/>/dev/nvme1n1<br/>/dev/sda1"]
end
subgraph "Data Plane - Node 2"
SN2[Storage Node 2]
DEV2["/dev/nvme0n1<br/>/dev/nvme1n1<br/>/dev/sdb1"]
end
subgraph "Data Plane - Node N"
SNN[Storage Node N]
DEVN["/dev/nvme0n1<br/>/dev/nvme1n1<br/>/dev/sdc1"]
end
subgraph "Management Plane"
GW[Gateway/Proxy]
MT[Metrics Service]
CLI[CLI Tool]
end
subgraph "Volume Abstraction"
VOL1["Volume-1 (50TB)<br/>Spans Node1+Node2<br/>12 devices total"]
VOL2["Volume-2 (200TB)<br/>Spans Node1+Node2+Node3<br/>36 devices total"]
end
CO --> PE
CO --> MS
CO --> VT
PE --> SN1
PE --> SN2
PE --> SNN
SN1 --> DEV1
SN2 --> DEV2
SNN --> DEVN
VT --> VOL1
VT --> VOL2
VOL1 --> SN1
VOL1 --> SN2
VOL2 --> SN1
VOL2 --> SN2
VOL2 --> SNN
Multi-Device Volume Architecture
graph TD
subgraph "Logical Volume 500TB"
LV["Volume ID: vol-abc123"]
LV --> VS["Volume Striper"]
VS --> CL["Chunk Layout Manager"]
end
subgraph "Physical Distribution"
CL --> N1["Node 1 - Chunks 0-99"]
CL --> N2["Node 2 - Chunks 100-199"]
CL --> N3["Node 3 - Chunks 200-299"]
CL --> N4["Node 4 - Chunks 300-399"]
end
subgraph "Node 1 Devices"
N1 --> D1["/dev/nvme0n1 - Chunks 0-24"]
N1 --> D2["/dev/nvme1n1 - Chunks 25-49"]
N1 --> D3["/dev/nvme2n1 - Chunks 50-74"]
N1 --> D4["/dev/nvme3n1 - Chunks 75-99"]
end
subgraph "Replication and Erasure Coding"
REP["3x Replication + 4+2 Erasure Coding"]
REP --> R1["Replica Set 1 - Nodes 1,2,3"]
REP --> R2["Replica Set 2 - Nodes 2,3,4"]
REP --> EC1["Erasure Code Set 1 - 4 data + 2 parity across 6 nodes"]
end
π Project Structure
galleonfs/
βββ Cargo.toml # Workspace configuration
βββ README.md # Project documentation
βββ LICENSE # MIT License
βββ .github/
β βββ workflows/
β β βββ ci.yml # Continuous integration
β β βββ security.yml # Security scanning
β β βββ performance.yml # Performance benchmarks
β βββ ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
β βββ bug_report.md
β βββ feature_request.md
β βββ performance_issue.md
βββ docker/ # Docker build files
β βββ coordinator.dockerfile
β βββ storage-node.dockerfile
β βββ volume-agent.dockerfile
β βββ gateway.dockerfile
β βββ metrics.dockerfile
β βββ docker-compose.yml # Development environment
βββ crates/
β βββ galleon-common/ # Shared libraries and types
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ lib.rs
β β β βββ types.rs # Common data structures
β β β βββ network.rs # Network protocols
β β β βββ crypto.rs # Cryptographic functions
β β β βββ metrics.rs # Metrics collection
β β β βββ error.rs # Error handling
β β β βββ config.rs # Configuration management
β β β βββ volume_topology.rs # Multi-device volume layout
β β β βββ utils.rs # Utility functions
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-coordinator/ # Control plane service
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ main.rs
β β β βββ consensus.rs # Raft implementation
β β β βββ placement.rs # Multi-device placement algorithms
β β β βββ metadata.rs # Metadata management
β β β βββ api.rs # gRPC API server
β β β βββ cluster.rs # Cluster management
β β β βββ health.rs # Health monitoring
β β β βββ volume_manager.rs # Large volume management
β β β βββ topology.rs # Device topology tracking
β β β βββ migration.rs # Data migration
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-storage-node/ # Data plane service
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ main.rs
β β β βββ storage_engine.rs # Block storage engine
β β β βββ device_manager.rs # Multi-device raw management
β β β βββ chunk_manager.rs # Volume chunk management
β β β βββ replication.rs # Data replication
β β β βββ erasure_coding.rs # Reed-Solomon coding
β β β βββ encryption.rs # At-rest encryption
β β β βββ compression.rs # Data compression
β β β βββ io_engine.rs # io_uring high-performance I/O
β β β βββ block_allocator.rs # Multi-device block allocation
β β β βββ consistency.rs # Consistency management
β β β βββ striping.rs # Data striping across devices
β β β βββ tiering.rs # Hot/cold data management
β β β βββ recovery.rs # Data recovery
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-volume-agent/ # Volume management service
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ main.rs
β β β βββ fuse_fs.rs # FUSE filesystem
β β β βββ mount.rs # Volume mounting
β β β βββ csi.rs # CSI interface
β β β βββ security.rs # Security enforcement
β β β βββ qos.rs # Quality of service
β β β βββ snapshot.rs # Multi-device snapshot management
β β β βββ large_volume.rs # Large volume handling
β β β βββ backup.rs # Backup operations
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-gateway/ # API gateway service
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ main.rs
β β β βββ s3_api.rs # S3-compatible API
β β β βββ block_api.rs # Native block API
β β β βββ grpc_api.rs # gRPC API server
β β β βββ rest_api.rs # REST API server
β β β βββ auth.rs # Authentication
β β β βββ proxy.rs # Load balancing
β β β βββ rate_limit.rs # Rate limiting
β β β βββ tenant.rs # Multi-tenancy
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-metrics/ # Observability service
β β βββ src/
β β β βββ main.rs
β β β βββ collector.rs # Metrics collection
β β β βββ analytics.rs # Performance analysis
β β β βββ alerting.rs # Alert management
β β β βββ dashboard.rs # Web UI
β β β βββ ml_optimizer.rs # ML-based optimization
β β β βββ capacity.rs # Capacity planning
β β β βββ volume_analytics.rs # Large volume analytics
β β β βββ reporting.rs # SLA reporting
β β βββ Cargo.toml
β β βββ README.md
β βββ galleon-cli/ # Command-line interface
β βββ src/
β β βββ main.rs
β β βββ commands/ # CLI commands
β β β βββ volume.rs # Large volume operations
β β β βββ cluster.rs
β β β βββ storage.rs
β β β βββ device.rs # Device management
β β β βββ backup.rs
β β β βββ admin.rs
β β βββ client.rs # API client
β β βββ config.rs # Configuration management
β β βββ output.rs # Output formatting
β βββ Cargo.toml
β βββ README.md
βββ proto/ # Protocol buffer definitions
β βββ coordinator.proto
β βββ storage.proto
β βββ volume.proto
β βββ device.proto # Device topology
β βββ chunk.proto # Chunk management
β βββ replication.proto
β βββ metrics.proto
β βββ gateway.proto
βββ tests/ # Integration tests
β βββ integration/
β β βββ cluster_tests.rs
β β βββ performance_tests.rs
β β βββ failover_tests.rs
β β βββ consistency_tests.rs
β β βββ large_volume_tests.rs # Multi-device volume tests
β β βββ device_failure_tests.rs
β β βββ security_tests.rs
β β βββ scalability_tests.rs
β βββ e2e/
β β βββ deployment_tests.rs
β β βββ upgrade_tests.rs
β β βββ multi_device_tests.rs
β β βββ chaos_tests.rs
β βββ benchmarks/
β βββ storage_benchmarks.rs
β βββ network_benchmarks.rs
β βββ large_volume_benchmarks.rs
β βββ scaling_benchmarks.rs
βββ docs/ # Documentation
β βββ architecture.md
β βββ deployment.md
β βββ api_reference.md
β βββ large_volumes.md # Multi-device volume guide
β βββ performance_tuning.md
β βββ security_guide.md
β βββ troubleshooting.md
β βββ development_guide.md
βββ scripts/ # Deployment and maintenance scripts
β βββ deploy.sh
β βββ benchmark.py
β βββ health_check.py
β βββ backup_cluster.py
β βββ restore_cluster.py
β βββ device_management.py # Device discovery and management
β βββ chaos_testing.py
βββ kubernetes/ # Kubernetes manifests (optional)
β βββ coordinator.yaml
β βββ storage-node.yaml
β βββ volume-agent.yaml
β βββ gateway.yaml
β βββ metrics.yaml
β βββ rbac.yaml
βββ examples/ # Usage examples
βββ basic_deployment/
βββ high_availability/
βββ multi_datacenter/
βββ large_volumes/ # Large volume examples
βββ performance_optimized/
π οΈ Linux-Optimized Technology Stack
Core Dependencies (Cargo.toml)
[workspace]
members = [
"crates/galleon-common",
"crates/galleon-coordinator",
"crates/galleon-storage-node",
"crates/galleon-volume-agent",
"crates/galleon-gateway",
"crates/galleon-metrics",
"crates/galleon-cli"
]
[workspace.dependencies]
# Core async runtime
tokio = { version = "1.35", features = ["full", "tracing", "rt-multi-thread"] }
tokio-uring = "0.4" # Linux io_uring support
futures = "0.3"
async-trait = "0.1"
# High-performance Linux I/O
io-uring = "0.6" # Direct io_uring access
uring-sys = "0.6" # Low-level io_uring bindings
libc = "0.2" # System calls
nix = "0.27" # Unix APIs
mio = "0.8" # Event-driven I/O
# Linux-specific optimizations
libbpf-sys = "1.2" # eBPF integration
procfs = "0.16" # /proc filesystem access
sysinfo = "0.29" # System information
caps = "0.5" # Linux capabilities
systemd = "0.10" # systemd integration
cgroups-rs = "0.3" # cgroups management
# Networking and RPC
tonic = "0.10" # gRPC framework
prost = "0.12" # Protocol buffers
hyper = { version = "0.14", features = ["full"] }
tower = "0.4" # Service framework
tower-http = "0.4" # HTTP utilities
axum = "0.7" # Web framework
quinn = "0.10" # QUIC protocol for fast replication
# High-performance networking
rdma-sys = "0.1" # RDMA/InfiniBand support
dpdk-sys = "0.1" # DPDK userspace networking (if available)
socket2 = "0.5" # Advanced socket options
# Distributed systems
raft = "0.7" # Raft consensus
etcd-client = "0.12" # etcd integration (optional)
serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0"
bincode = "1.3" # Binary serialization
rmp-serde = "1.1" # MessagePack serialization
# Storage and databases
rocksdb = "0.21" # Embedded key-value store
sled = "0.34" # Alternative embedded DB
tikv-jemallocator = "0.5" # Memory allocator
memmap2 = "0.7" # Memory mapping
crc32fast = "1.3" # Checksums
xxhash-rust = "0.8" # Fast hashing
ahash = "0.8" # High-performance hashing
# Memory management and alignment
aligned-vec = "0.5" # Aligned memory for O_DIRECT
hugepage-rs = "0.4" # Huge page support
numa = "0.2" # NUMA awareness
page_size = "0.5" # Page size detection
# Cryptography (hardware accelerated)
ring = "0.17" # Hardware-accelerated crypto
aes-gcm = "0.10" # AES-GCM encryption
ed25519-dalek = "2.0" # Digital signatures
x25519-dalek = "2.0" # Key exchange
sha2 = "0.10" # SHA hashing
blake3 = "1.5" # BLAKE3 hashing
# Compression
lz4 = "1.24" # LZ4 compression
zstd = "0.12" # Zstandard compression
snap = "1.1" # Snappy compression
# Observability and metrics
tracing = "0.1" # Structured logging
tracing-subscriber = "0.3" # Log formatting
tracing-opentelemetry = "0.21" # OpenTelemetry integration
opentelemetry = "0.20" # Distributed tracing
opentelemetry-jaeger = "0.19" # Jaeger exporter
metrics = "0.21" # Metrics collection
prometheus = "0.13" # Prometheus metrics
# Machine learning and optimization
candle-core = "0.3" # ML framework
candle-nn = "0.3" # Neural networks
ndarray = "0.15" # N-dimensional arrays
nalgebra = "0.32" # Linear algebra
# Container integration
bollard = "0.14" # Docker API
k8s-openapi = "0.20" # Kubernetes API
kube = "0.87" # Kubernetes client
# Filesystem interface
fuser = "0.14" # FUSE filesystem
selinux = "0.4" # SELinux integration
# Configuration and CLI
clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive"] }
config = "0.13" # Configuration management
toml = "0.8" # TOML parsing
uuid = { version = "1.6", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
humantime = "2.1" # Human-readable time
byte-unit = "4.0" # Byte size parsing
# Error handling and utilities
anyhow = "1.0" # Error handling
thiserror = "1.0" # Error derivation
once_cell = "1.19" # Global state
parking_lot = "0.12" # High-performance synchronization
crossbeam = "0.8" # Lock-free data structures
dashmap = "5.5" # Concurrent hash map
rayon = "1.8" # Data parallelism
# Reed-Solomon erasure coding
reed-solomon-erasure = "6.0" # Erasure coding implementation
reed-solomon-simd = "2.1" # SIMD-accelerated erasure coding
# Development and testing
criterion = { version = "0.5", features = ["html_reports"] }
proptest = "1.4" # Property-based testing
mockall = "0.12" # Mocking framework
tempfile = "3.8" # Temporary files
wiremock = "0.5" # HTTP mocking
# Hardware acceleration detection
cpuid = "0.1" # CPU feature detection
is-x86-feature-detected = "0.1" # x86 feature detectionπ§ Implementation Plan
Phase 1: Core Multi-Device Storage Engine (Months 1-3)
1.1 Linux-Optimized Device Management
- Device Discovery: Scan
/dev/and/sys/block/for available storage devices - Device Claiming: Implement exclusive O_DIRECT access with
flock()and device locking - Multi-Device Coordination: Coordinate access across hundreds of devices per node
- Device Health Monitoring: SMART data collection and predictive failure detection
- Huge Page Support: Use 2MB/1GB pages for large volume buffers
- NUMA Optimization: Bind threads and memory to specific NUMA nodes for device locality
// Device management for absurdly large volumes
pub struct MultiDeviceManager {
// Up to 1000+ devices per node
claimed_devices: HashMap<DeviceId, ClaimedDevice>,
device_health: HashMap<DeviceId, HealthMonitor>,
numa_topology: NumaTopology,
device_to_numa: HashMap<DeviceId, NumaNode>,
}
impl MultiDeviceManager {
pub async fn claim_devices_for_volume(
&mut self,
target_capacity: u64,
performance_requirements: &PerformanceSpec
) -> Result<Vec<DeviceId>> {
// Intelligently select devices across NUMA domains
let candidate_devices = self.discover_available_devices().await?;
let selected_devices = self.optimize_device_selection(
&candidate_devices,
target_capacity,
performance_requirements
).await?;
// Claim devices with proper locking
for device_id in &selected_devices {
self.claim_device_exclusive(*device_id).await?;
}
Ok(selected_devices)
}
}1.2 io_uring-Based High-Performance I/O
- Multi-Ring Architecture: Separate io_uring per device for maximum parallelism
- Batch Operations: Batch up to 256 operations per submission for efficiency
- Zero-Copy I/O: Direct memory mapping with proper page alignment
- Advanced io_uring Features: Use
IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLLandIORING_FEAT_NODROP - Buffer Pools: Pre-allocated, aligned buffers with huge page backing
- CPU Affinity: Pin I/O threads to CPUs close to device NUMA domains
1.3 Chunk-Based Storage Engine
- Large Chunk Support: 64MB - 1GB chunks for efficient large volume management
- Chunk Striping: Stripe chunks across multiple devices within same node
- Cross-Node Striping: Stripe chunks across multiple nodes for massive volumes
- Metadata Optimization: Efficient chunk metadata storage for millions of chunks
- Write-Ahead Logging: Per-device WAL with batch commits for atomicity
- Checksumming: Hardware-accelerated CRC32C or BLAKE3 for chunk integrity
Phase 2: Distributed Multi-Device Architecture (Months 2-4)
2.1 Cluster-Wide Device Coordination
- Global Device Registry: Centralized registry of all devices across all nodes
- Cross-Node Volume Creation: Coordinate volume creation across hundreds of nodes
- Device Failure Handling: Automatic device replacement and data reconstruction
- Load Balancing: Distribute chunks optimally across available devices
- Capacity Management: Track used/available capacity across entire cluster
- Performance Monitoring: Real-time IOPS/throughput tracking per device
2.2 Large Volume Replication
- Multi-Node Replication: Replicate chunks across multiple nodes automatically
- Erasure Coding: Reed-Solomon coding (4+2, 8+4, 16+4) for space efficiency
- RDMA Replication: Use InfiniBand/RoCE for sub-microsecond replication
- Quorum Management: Flexible quorum for different consistency requirements
- Partial Failure Recovery: Reconstruct failed chunks from remaining replicas
- Cross-Datacenter Replication: WAN-optimized replication for disaster recovery
2.3 Volume Topology Management
- Chunk Placement Engine: ML-optimized placement across devices and nodes
- Failure Domain Awareness: Avoid placing replicas in same failure domains
- Hot/Cold Data Tiering: Automatic migration between NVMe/SSD/HDD tiers
- Geographic Distribution: Place data across regions for compliance/latency
- Dynamic Rebalancing: Automatically rebalance as cluster grows/shrinks
- Topology Visualization: Visual representation of volume distribution
Phase 3: Massive Volume Management (Months 3-5)
3.1 Volume Operations at Scale
- Petabyte+ Volume Creation: Handle volumes larger than individual nodes
- Online Volume Expansion: Grow volumes across additional devices/nodes
- Volume Snapshots: Efficient snapshots of massive multi-device volumes
- Volume Cloning: Copy-on-write clones of large distributed volumes
- Volume Migration: Move volumes between storage classes and locations
- Volume Compaction: Reclaim space from deleted data
// Example: Creating a 100TB volume across 20 nodes
pub async fn create_massive_volume(
volume_spec: VolumeSpec {
size: 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024u64, // 100TB
chunk_size: 1024 * 1024 * 1024, // 1GB chunks
replication_factor: 3,
erasure_coding: Some(ErasureCodingConfig {
data_blocks: 8,
parity_blocks: 4
}),
placement_policy: PlacementPolicy::MaximumDistribution {
prefer_local_node: false,
max_chunks_per_device: 1000,
max_chunks_per_node: 5000,
},
}
) -> Result<VolumeId>;3.2 Performance Optimization for Large Volumes
- Intelligent Prefetching: Predict access patterns for sequential workloads
- Multi-Level Caching: Memory β NVMe β SSD β HDD cache hierarchy
- QoS Enforcement: Guarantee IOPS/bandwidth for critical large volumes
- Load Distribution: Balance I/O across all devices in volume
- Thermal Management: Move hot data to faster storage automatically
- Performance Analytics: Detailed performance analysis for optimization
3.3 Advanced Storage Features
- Deduplication: Block-level deduplication across large volumes
- Compression: Transparent compression with hardware acceleration
- Encryption: Per-chunk encryption with hardware AES acceleration
- Backup Integration: Incremental backups of massive volumes
- Disaster Recovery: Cross-region replication and failover
- Compliance: Data residency and retention policy enforcement
Phase 4: High-Performance Interfaces (Months 4-6)
4.1 Ultra-High Performance Block API
- Native Block Interface: Direct block access for databases and high-performance apps
- Async/Await Support: Full async support with proper backpressure handling
- Batch Operations: Submit thousands of operations in single API call
- Direct Memory Access: Zero-copy operations with user-provided buffers
- Multi-Queue Support: Multiple submission queues per volume for parallelism
- Real-Time Metrics: Sub-millisecond latency and IOPS reporting
4.2 Optimized FUSE Filesystem
- High-Performance FUSE: Optimized FUSE with kernel caching and batching
- Large File Support: Efficiently handle files larger than individual nodes
- Distributed Locking: Cluster-aware file locking across nodes
- Memory Mapping: Support mmap() for large files distributed across cluster
- Extended Attributes: Custom metadata storage per file
- Security Integration: SELinux/AppArmor policy enforcement
4.3 S3-Compatible Object Storage
- S3 API Compliance: Full S3 REST API compatibility
- Large Object Support: Handle objects up to petabytes in size
- Multipart Upload: Parallel uploads for massive objects
- Object Lifecycle: Automatic tiering and archival policies
- Cross-Region Replication: Automatic object replication across regions
- Access Control: S3-compatible ACLs and bucket policies
4.4 Container Storage Interface (CSI)
- CSI 1.6+ Compliance: Full Kubernetes and OmniCloud integration
- Dynamic Provisioning: Automatic volume creation from storage classes
- Topology Awareness: Zone and region-aware volume placement
- Volume Expansion: Online resize of mounted volumes
- Volume Snapshots: Point-in-time snapshots through CSI
- Raw Block Volumes: Block device access for containerized databases
Phase 5: Enterprise Features (Months 5-7)
5.1 Advanced Security
- Hardware Security Modules: Integration with HSMs for key management
- Per-Volume Encryption: Individual encryption keys per volume
- Key Rotation: Automatic encryption key rotation without downtime
- Zero-Knowledge Encryption: Client-side encryption with customer keys
- Audit Logging: Comprehensive security audit trails
- Compliance Frameworks: SOC 2, FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria support
5.2 Enterprise Management
- Multi-Tenancy: Complete tenant isolation with resource quotas
- RBAC System: Fine-grained role-based access control
- Identity Integration: OAuth2, OIDC, LDAP/AD integration
- Usage Monitoring: Detailed usage tracking and billing support
- SLA Management: Service level agreement compliance and reporting
- Capacity Planning: Predictive analytics for capacity requirements
5.3 Operational Excellence
- Health Monitoring: Comprehensive cluster health monitoring
- Predictive Maintenance: ML-based failure prediction and prevention
- Automated Recovery: Self-healing from various failure scenarios
- Performance Optimization: Automatic performance tuning and optimization
- Troubleshooting Tools: Advanced diagnostics and log analysis
- Documentation: Comprehensive operational runbooks and guides
π Detailed Requirements
Functional Requirements
Massive Volume Support
-
Volume Size Limits:
- Minimum volume size: 1MB (for testing)
- Maximum volume size: 1 Exabyte (1,000,000 TB) per volume
- Support for volumes spanning 1000+ devices across 100+ nodes
- Automatic distribution across available storage capacity
- Dynamic growth without service interruption
-
Multi-Device Coordination:
- Support up to 10,000 devices per cluster node
- Coordinate I/O across hundreds of devices simultaneously
- Automatic device discovery and integration
- Device failure detection and automatic replacement
- Hot device addition/removal without downtime
-
Cross-Node Volume Distribution:
- Volumes can span unlimited number of cluster nodes
- Intelligent chunk placement based on network topology
- Automatic load balancing across nodes and devices
- Node failure handling with data reconstruction
- Cross-datacenter volume distribution support
Performance Requirements
Throughput Specifications
-
Per-Node Performance (Linux-optimized):
- Sequential Read: >20 GB/s per node (with NVMe arrays)
- Sequential Write: >10 GB/s per node (with replication)
- Random Read (4KB): >2M IOPS per node (memory-backed)
- Random Write (4KB): >1M IOPS per node (with journaling)
- Multi-device aggregation: Linear scaling across devices
- NUMA-optimized: <10% performance penalty across NUMA domains
-
Cluster-Wide Performance:
- Aggregate Throughput: >2 TB/s across 100-node cluster
- Volume Performance: Aggregate performance from all devices in volume
- Linear Scaling: >95% efficiency when adding devices/nodes to volumes
- Cross-Node I/O: <30% latency penalty for remote device access
- Network Utilization: >90% of available network bandwidth for replication
- Storage Utilization: >95% of raw device capacity
Latency Requirements
- Linux-Optimized Latency:
- Memory-resident data: <5ΞΌs p99 latency (NUMA-local)
- Local NVMe access: <25ΞΌs p99 latency (io_uring optimized)
- Local SSD access: <50ΞΌs p99 latency
- Remote device access: <200ΞΌs p99 latency within datacenter
- Metadata operations: <500ΞΌs p99 for volume operations
- Cross-node replication: <1ms p99 with RDMA networking
Scalability Targets
- Extreme Scale Support:
- Node Count: Support 10,000+ storage nodes per cluster
- Volume Count: Support 1M+ volumes per cluster
- Device Count: Support 10M+ devices across entire cluster
- Chunk Count: Support 1B+ chunks across all volumes
- Concurrent Operations: >1M concurrent I/O operations cluster-wide
- Metadata Scale: Handle metadata for exabyte-scale deployments
Data Durability and Consistency
Replication and Erasure Coding
- Multi-Level Protection:
- Configurable replication: 1-16 replicas per chunk
- Reed-Solomon erasure coding: 4+2, 8+4, 16+4, custom configurations
- Cross-node replication: Automatic placement across failure domains
- Cross-datacenter replication: WAN-optimized with bandwidth management
- Hybrid protection: Combine replication and erasure coding for optimal efficiency
- Self-healing: Automatic reconstruction of failed replicas/parity blocks
Data Integrity
- End-to-End Protection:
- Hardware-accelerated checksums: CRC32C, BLAKE3 with CPU instruction sets
- Silent corruption detection: Automatic verification during reads
- Scrubbing operations: Periodic integrity verification of all data
- Bit-rot protection: Regular checking and automatic repair
- Data verification: Cryptographic verification of critical metadata
- Repair automation: Automatic reconstruction from remaining good copies
Consistency Models
- Flexible Consistency:
- Strong consistency: Synchronous replication with quorum requirements
- Eventual consistency: Asynchronous replication for performance
- Read-after-write: Immediate consistency for single-client access
- Causal consistency: Ordered operations within single session
- Configurable quorum: Flexible R/W/N quorum settings per volume
- Conflict resolution: Automatic resolution of concurrent write conflicts
Linux-Specific Optimizations
Kernel Integration
- Advanced I/O Features:
- io_uring integration: Latest io_uring features and optimizations
- Direct I/O: Bypass page cache with O_DIRECT for maximum performance
- Asynchronous I/O: Non-blocking I/O operations with completion queues
- Batch operations: Submit hundreds of operations in single syscall
- Memory mapping: Large file support with mmap() and huge pages
- CPU affinity: Pin I/O threads to appropriate CPU cores
Memory Management
- Optimized Memory Usage:
- Huge page support: Use 2MB/1GB pages for large buffers
- NUMA awareness: Allocate memory local to device NUMA domains
- Buffer pools: Pre-allocated, aligned buffers for zero-copy I/O
- Memory locking: Lock critical pages in memory to prevent swapping
- Copy avoidance: Zero-copy operations wherever possible
- Memory pressure handling: Graceful degradation under memory pressure
Network Optimization
- High-Performance Networking:
- RDMA support: InfiniBand/RoCE for ultra-low latency replication
- Kernel bypass: DPDK integration for userspace networking
- TCP optimizations: SO_REUSEPORT, TCP_NODELAY, optimized buffer sizes
- Network batching: Batch network operations for efficiency
- CPU offload: Use hardware offload features where available
- Network NUMA: Bind network threads to appropriate NUMA domains
Security Requirements
Encryption
- Hardware-Accelerated Security:
- AES-NI acceleration: Use CPU AES instructions for encryption/decryption
- Per-volume encryption: Individual encryption keys per volume
- Per-chunk encryption: Granular encryption at chunk level
- Key management: Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration
- Key rotation: Automatic key rotation without service interruption
- Zero-knowledge: Client-side encryption with customer-managed keys
Access Control
- Enterprise Security:
- Multi-tenant isolation: Complete separation between tenants
- RBAC system: Role-based access control with fine-grained permissions
- Identity integration: OAuth2, OIDC, LDAP/AD authentication
- Audit logging: Comprehensive audit trail of all operations
- Network security: mTLS for all inter-service communication
- Container security: Integration with container runtime security
Compliance
- Regulatory Compliance:
- SOC 2 Type II: Service organization control compliance
- FIPS 140-2: Federal cryptographic module standards
- Common Criteria: International security evaluation standards
- GDPR compliance: Data protection regulation compliance
- Data residency: Geographic data location controls
- Retention policies: Automated data lifecycle management
Operational Requirements
Deployment
- Linux Container Deployment:
- Docker containers: Multi-architecture container images (x86_64, ARM64)
- systemd integration: Native systemd service files and management
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, OmniCloud integration
- Bare metal: Optimized bare metal deployment scripts
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP marketplace images
- Package management: DEB/RPM packages for major Linux distributions
Monitoring and Observability
- Comprehensive Monitoring:
- Prometheus metrics: Detailed metrics export for monitoring
- OpenTelemetry tracing: Distributed request tracing
- Performance profiling: CPU, memory, I/O performance analysis
- Health checking: Automated health verification and alerting
- Log aggregation: Structured logging with multiple output formats
- Capacity planning: Predictive analytics for capacity management
High Availability
- Enterprise Availability:
- 99.999% uptime: Five nines availability SLA
- Zero-downtime upgrades: Rolling updates without service interruption
- Automatic failover: Sub-second failover for active workloads
- Disaster recovery: Cross-region replication and automated failover
- Split-brain prevention: Network partition handling and recovery
- Chaos engineering: Automated failure injection and recovery testing
Integration Requirements
OmniCloud Platform Integration
- Native Platform Integration:
- OmniCloud Orchestrator: Deep integration with container orchestration
- Volume provisioning: Dynamic volume creation and lifecycle management
- Resource management: Integration with OmniCloud resource quotas and policies
- Multi-tenancy: Native tenant isolation and resource allocation
- Policy enforcement: Integration with OmniCloud governance and compliance
- Monitoring integration: Native integration with OmniCloud observability
Container Runtime Integration
- Container Storage Interface (CSI):
- CSI 1.6+ compliance: Latest CSI specification support
- Dynamic provisioning: Automatic volume creation from storage classes
- Volume expansion: Online volume resize for running containers
- Volume snapshots: Point-in-time snapshots through CSI
- Topology awareness: Zone and region-aware volume placement
- Raw block volumes: Block device access for containerized databases
API Compatibility
- Multi-Protocol Support:
- Native gRPC API: High-performance binary protocol
- S3-compatible API: Amazon S3 REST API compatibility
- Block storage API: Raw block device access protocol
- File storage API: POSIX-compliant filesystem interface
- WebDAV support: Web-based file access protocol
- CLI interface: Comprehensive command-line management tool
Quality Requirements
Reliability and Availability
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Enterprise-Grade Reliability:
- System Uptime: 99.999% (5 nines) availability SLA with <5 minutes downtime per year
- Data Durability: 99.999999999% (11 nines) with Reed-Solomon erasure coding
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR): <30 seconds for node failures, <5 minutes for datacenter failures
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): >1 year for individual volumes under normal conditions
- Planned Downtime: Zero-downtime for all maintenance operations including upgrades
- Error Rates: <0.0001% error rate for storage operations under normal load
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Fault Tolerance Capabilities:
- Simultaneous Failures: Survive failure of up to 50% of cluster nodes
- Device Failures: Automatic recovery from multiple device failures per node
- Network Partitions: Graceful handling of network splits with automatic recovery
- Cascading Failure Prevention: Circuit breakers and bulkheads to prevent failure propagation
- Silent Corruption Protection: Detect and repair silent data corruption automatically
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance: Handle arbitrary failures in distributed consensus
Performance Consistency
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Predictable Performance:
- Latency Consistency: <2x variance in p99 latency under normal operations
- Throughput Stability: <10% throughput variance under sustained load
- QoS Enforcement: Hard guarantees for IOPS, bandwidth, and latency limits
- Performance Isolation: Complete isolation between tenants and workloads
- Tail Latency: <5ms p99.9 latency for critical operations
- Jitter Control: <100ΞΌs jitter for time-sensitive applications
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Load Handling Capabilities:
- Burst Performance: Handle 10x normal load for up to 5 minutes
- Graceful Degradation: Maintain core functionality under extreme load
- Fair Scheduling: Prevent any single workload from monopolizing resources
- Priority Queuing: Honor priority levels for critical vs. batch workloads
- Backpressure Handling: Proper backpressure propagation to prevent cascade failures
- Auto-scaling: Automatic resource scaling based on demand patterns
Resource Efficiency
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Storage Efficiency:
- Space Utilization: >95% storage utilization with intelligent placement
- Compression Ratios: >3:1 compression for typical enterprise workloads
- Deduplication: >5:1 space savings for redundant data across volumes
- Erasure Coding Efficiency: <1.5x storage overhead with 8+4 erasure coding
- Thin Provisioning: Dynamic allocation with <1% waste from over-provisioning
- Garbage Collection: Automatic space reclamation with <5% overhead
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Compute Efficiency:
- CPU Overhead: <5% CPU overhead for storage operations under normal load
- Memory Efficiency: <2GB RAM per TB of managed storage
- Network Efficiency: <15% network overhead for replication traffic
- Power Efficiency: <30W per TB for complete storage solution
- Cache Efficiency: >90% cache hit rate for hot data access patterns
- Resource Scaling: Linear resource usage scaling with data size
Data Consistency and Integrity
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Strong Consistency Guarantees:
- Metadata Consistency: Strong consistency for all metadata operations
- Read Consistency: Read-your-writes consistency within single session
- Cross-Region Consistency: Eventual consistency with bounded staleness (<1 second)
- Transaction Support: ACID transactions for multi-block operations
- Conflict Resolution: Automatic resolution of concurrent write conflicts
- Consistency Verification: Automated consistency checking and repair
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Data Integrity Assurance:
- Checksum Coverage: End-to-end checksums for 100% of stored data
- Corruption Detection: Real-time detection of data corruption during access
- Automatic Repair: Self-healing from checksum mismatches and corruption
- Verification Frequency: Complete data verification at least monthly
- Error Reporting: Detailed error reporting and alerting for data issues
- Recovery Success Rate: >99.9% successful recovery from detected corruption
π§ͺ Testing and Validation Strategy
Comprehensive Test Suite
- Unit Tests: >90% code coverage for all core components
- Integration Tests: End-to-end testing of multi-device volume operations
- Performance Tests: Automated regression testing for throughput and latency
- Scalability Tests: Testing with 1000+ devices and 100+ nodes
- Failure Tests: Comprehensive failure injection and recovery testing
- Security Tests: Penetration testing and security vulnerability scanning
Chaos Engineering
- Automated Chaos Testing:
- Random device failures during high load
- Network partitions and recovery testing
- Memory pressure and resource exhaustion testing
- Clock skew and time synchronization issues
- Hardware failure simulation (disk, memory, CPU)
- Datacenter-level failure scenarios
Performance Benchmarking
- Industry Standard Benchmarks:
- FIO benchmark suite with various I/O patterns
- YCSB for database-like workloads
- Custom large-volume benchmarks for multi-device scenarios
- Network throughput testing with iperf3 and custom tools
- Latency testing with histogram analysis
- Sustained performance testing over 72+ hours
Real-World Validation
- Production-Like Testing:
- Deploy on bare metal with hundreds of real devices
- Test with actual enterprise workloads (databases, file servers, etc.)
- Multi-tenant testing with competing workloads
- Cross-datacenter replication testing with real WAN conditions
- Disaster recovery drills with actual failover scenarios
- Performance validation under various Linux kernel versions
π― Success Criteria
Performance Benchmarks
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Single Node Performance (Linux-optimized):
- Achieve >20 GB/s sequential throughput with NVMe array
- Sustain >2M random IOPS with memory-backed storage
- Maintain <25ΞΌs p99 latency for local NVMe access
- Scale linearly across 1000+ devices per node
- Demonstrate <5% CPU overhead under full load
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Multi-Device Volume Performance:
- Create 100TB volume across 20 nodes in <60 seconds
- Achieve aggregate >500 GB/s throughput across large volume
- Maintain consistent performance as volume spans more devices
- Demonstrate <2x latency penalty for cross-node access
- Support >1M IOPS across distributed volume
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Cluster-Wide Performance:
- Scale to 1000+ nodes with linear performance scaling
- Manage 1M+ volumes across entire cluster
- Support 1B+ chunks with efficient metadata operations
- Achieve >90% network utilization for replication traffic
- Maintain <1ms p99 latency for metadata operations
Reliability Benchmarks
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Data Durability:
- Achieve 11 nines (99.999999999%) data durability
- Survive multiple simultaneous node failures
- Automatically recover from device failures within 30 seconds
- Maintain service availability during rolling upgrades
- Pass 72-hour continuous operation tests without failures
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Fault Tolerance:
- Handle network partitions gracefully with automatic recovery
- Survive datacenter-level failures with <5 minute RTO
- Detect and repair silent data corruption automatically
- Prevent cascading failures through proper isolation
- Maintain consistency during concurrent failures
Scalability Benchmarks
- Extreme Scale Testing:
- Deploy 1000+ node test cluster
- Create petabyte-scale volumes across hundreds of nodes
- Manage millions of volumes and billions of chunks
- Demonstrate linear cost scaling with capacity growth
- Validate performance at exabyte-scale simulations
π Success Metrics
Quantitative Metrics
- Performance: Achieve 2x better performance than Ceph in equivalent configurations
- Efficiency: Use 50% less CPU and memory overhead compared to existing solutions
- Scalability: Support 10x larger volumes than current enterprise storage solutions
- Reliability: Achieve 99.999% uptime in production deployments
- Resource Usage: Maintain <5% CPU overhead and <2GB RAM per TB
Qualitative Goals
- Operational Simplicity: Reduce storage management complexity by 80%
- Developer Experience: Enable storage provisioning in <5 minutes vs. hours
- Troubleshooting: Provide clear diagnostics and automated problem resolution
- Documentation: Comprehensive guides for deployment, operation, and troubleshooting
- Community Adoption: Gain adoption by major enterprises and cloud providers
π Delivery Timeline
Milestone 1: Core Storage Engine
- Multi-device raw storage management
- Linux-optimized I/O with io_uring
- Basic chunk management and allocation
- Single-node volume operations
- Device health monitoring and failure detection
Milestone 2: Distributed Architecture
- Multi-node cluster formation and consensus
- Cross-node volume distribution
- Replication and erasure coding
- Network-optimized data transfer
- Basic failure recovery mechanisms
Milestone 3: Large Volume Support
- Petabyte+ volume creation and management
- Intelligent chunk placement across nodes
- Hot/cold data tiering
- Performance optimization for large volumes
- Advanced failure recovery and reconstruction
Milestone 4: Enterprise Features
- Complete security implementation
- Multi-tenancy and resource quotas
- Comprehensive monitoring and alerting
- Production deployment tools
- Performance optimization and tuning
Milestone 5: Production Readiness
- Comprehensive testing and validation
- Performance benchmarking vs. competitors
- Documentation and operational guides
- Customer pilot deployments
- Community release and adoption
Note The specific file structure here is a guide only and does not need to be followed