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Zach Brown
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In the quorum work loop some message receive actions extend the timeout after the timeout expiration is checked. This is usually fine when the work runs soon after the messages are received and before the timeout expires. But under load the work might not schedule until long after both the message has been received and the timeout has expired. If the message was a heartbeat message then the wakeup delay would be mistaken for lack of activity on the server and it would try to take over for an otherwise active server. This moves the extension of the heartbeat on message receive to before the timeout is checked. In our case of a delayed heartbeat message it would still find it in the recv queue and extend the timeout, avoiding fencing an active server. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@versity.com>
Introduction
scoutfs is a clustered in-kernel Linux filesystem designed to support large archival systems. It features additional interfaces and metadata so that archive agents can perform their maintenance workflows without walking all the files in the namespace. Its cluster support lets deployments add nodes to satisfy archival tier bandwidth targets.
The design goal is to reach file populations in the trillions, with the archival bandwidth to match, while remaining operational and responsive.
Highlights of the design and implementation include:
- Fully consistent POSIX semantics between nodes
- Atomic transactions to maintain consistent persistent structures
- Integrated archival metadata replaces syncing to external databases
- Dynamic seperation of resources lets nodes write in parallel
- 64bit throughout; no limits on file or directory sizes or counts
- Open GPLv2 implementation
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