* rust: a seaweed-common crate for the address and TLS helpers both crates carry seaweed-volume and seaweed-worker are separate cargo trees with separate lockfiles and no root manifest, so anything both of them need has had to be written twice. Two of those copies are a correctness risk rather than a typing cost, and this crate is where they stop being copies. address.rs is the HTTP<->gRPC port rule: `host:port` means gRPC on port+10000, `host:port.grpcPort` names it outright. The two copies had already drifted — the worker's bracketed IPv6 literals, the volume server's did not — so the rule lives here once, returning a typed AddressError whose Display text is the volume server's original wording, with join_host_port public beside it. A test asserts two of those messages in full rather than by substring, because the wording is the contract its callers hand to a Status or an io::Error; the other three end in a std ParseIntError message, which is std's to reword. The enum is #[non_exhaustive] so a future variant is not a breaking change for either consumer. The tests are both crates' cases together, plus the IPv6, already-bracketed and normalisation cases neither copy covered on its own. tls.rs is install_default_crypto_provider. Both binaries link aws-lc-rs and ring transitively, so rustls cannot auto-select and tonic's client TLS panics on first use; each binary has to pin one and it has to be the same one, which is exactly the kind of choice that should not exist twice. It is safe to share because `cargo tree -i rustls` resolves a single rustls in each tree (0.23.37 in seaweed-volume, 0.23.43 in seaweed-worker) and cargo unifies all semver-compatible `rustls = "0.23"` requirements into one crate per binary, so this crate writes the same process-wide static its consumer reads. rustls is already in both graphs — directly in the volume server, through tonic's tls-aws-lc in seaweed-worker-core — so the dependency adds no crate to either. rust-version is 1.91.1, the lower of the two consumers' floors, so depending on this crate cannot raise either tree's MSRV; verified with `cargo +1.91.1 check --all-targets`. The lockfile is committed even though this is a library: CI builds it directly, so a committed lock is what makes those runs reproducible and their caches stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * rust: take the address and TLS helpers from seaweed-common Both public signatures are kept, so no caller outside the two wrapper files changes. parse_grpc_address stays `Result<String, String>` and maps the typed error through Display; server_to_grpc_address stays `Option<String>` and drops it with .ok(). Their doc comments and the volume server's 13 call sites are otherwise untouched. Three behaviours change, each in the direction of the copy that was already right: - The volume server now brackets IPv6 literals. `::1:19333` used to come back as `::1:29333`, which build_grpc_endpoint rejects with "invalid gRPC endpoint http://::1:19333: invalid authority" — an IPv6 master or EC peer could not be dialled at all. Two tests in grpc_client.rs pin it, one on the string and one on the endpoint the string builds. - The volume server now emits the *parsed* gRPC port of the dotted form instead of the original text it had just validated, so `host:8080.018080` and `host:8080.+18080` come back as `host:18080` rather than as authorities the URI parser rejects. Same port either way; only malformed spellings change. - The worker's dotted form now validates the HTTP port it discards. `server_to_grpc_address("host:abc.18080")` used to answer Some("host:18080"); it now answers None, which is what the volume server's copy has always done. install_default_crypto_provider becomes a re-export in both trees, so `crate::security::tls::install_default_crypto_provider` and `weed_lance_worker::tls::install_default_crypto_provider` still resolve. The lance crate's `rustls = "0.23"` was its only direct use of rustls and goes away with the body; seaweed-common states the same requirement, so neither the resolved version nor the enabled features move in either lockfile. The PEM test fixtures stay where they are. The two tests that use them are not duplicates: the volume server's exercises build_grpc_endpoint, and the lance one exists precisely because aws-lc-rs and ring are both linked in that crate's graph. Only the literals are shared, and exporting test fixtures from a library to dedupe two constants costs more than it saves. A path dependency outside both trees means every build context that copies one crate directory has to copy the other. The repo has one: the Rust source-build stage of docker/Dockerfile.go_build, which now copies seaweed-common beside seaweed-volume. Every workflow whose `paths:` filter keys on a crate directory gains `seaweed-common/**` — the two Rust test workflows, rust_binaries_dev, container_dev and performance. The tag- and dispatch-triggered ones (rust_binaries_release, container_release_unified, container_latest) have no `paths:` filter and need nothing. The two Rust test workflows also run `cargo test` in seaweed-common, from their unit-test job, because a path dependency is not a workspace member and neither tree's own `cargo test` reaches it. Each step builds into its job's cached target directory, and both cache keys now hash seaweed-common/Cargo.lock as well so a change there invalidates the cache it would otherwise silently reuse. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docker: keep go_build working for BRANCH revisions without seaweed-common The rust_builder stage copies seaweed-common unconditionally now that seaweed-volume path-depends on it, but BRANCH can name any revision — including ones that predate the crate. Create the directory in the builder stage so the COPY always has a source; an empty dir beside an old seaweed-volume is harmless. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Chris Lu <chris.lu@gmail.com>
SeaweedFS Volume Server (Rust)
A drop-in replacement for the SeaweedFS Go volume server, rewritten in Rust. It uses binary-compatible storage formats (.dat, .idx, .vif) and speaks the same HTTP and gRPC protocols, so it works with an unmodified Go master server.
Building
Requires Rust 1.91.1+ (2024 edition), matching rust-version in Cargo.toml.
The patch release matters: 1.91.0 does not build. The edition itself only needs
1.85; the higher floor comes from the dependency tree — chiefly the AWS SDK — so
it moves with those crates. CI builds on the latest stable.
cd seaweed-volume
cargo build --release
The binary is produced at target/release/seaweed-volume.
Running
Start a Go master server first, then point the Rust volume server at it:
# Minimal
seaweed-volume --port 8080 --master localhost:9333 --dir /data/vol1 --max 7
# Multiple data directories
seaweed-volume --port 8080 --master localhost:9333 \
--dir /mnt/ssd1,/mnt/ssd2 --max 100,100 --disk ssd
# With datacenter/rack topology
seaweed-volume --port 8080 --master localhost:9333 --dir /data/vol1 --max 7 \
--dataCenter dc1 --rack rack1
# With JWT authentication
seaweed-volume --port 8080 --master localhost:9333 --dir /data/vol1 --max 7 \
--securityFile /etc/seaweedfs/security.toml
# With TLS (configured in security.toml via [https.volume] and [grpc.volume] sections)
seaweed-volume --port 8080 --master localhost:9333 --dir /data/vol1 --max 7 \
--securityFile /etc/seaweedfs/security.toml
Common flags
| Flag | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
--port |
8080 |
HTTP listen port |
--port.grpc |
port+10000 |
gRPC listen port |
--master |
localhost:9333 |
Comma-separated master server addresses |
--dir |
/tmp |
Comma-separated data directories |
--max |
8 |
Max volumes per directory (comma-separated) |
--ip |
auto-detect | Server IP / identifier |
--ip.bind |
same as --ip |
Bind address |
--dataCenter |
Datacenter name | |
--rack |
Rack name | |
--disk |
Disk type tag: hdd, ssd, or custom |
|
--index |
memory |
Needle map type: memory, leveldb, leveldbMedium, leveldbLarge |
--readMode |
proxy |
Non-local read mode: local, proxy, redirect |
--fileSizeLimitMB |
256 |
Max upload file size |
--minFreeSpace |
1 (percent) |
Min free disk space before marking volumes read-only |
--securityFile |
Path to security.toml for JWT keys and TLS certs |
|
--metricsPort |
0 (disabled) |
Prometheus metrics endpoint port |
--whiteList |
Comma-separated IPs with write permission | |
--preStopSeconds |
10 |
Graceful drain period before shutdown |
--compactionMBps |
0 (unlimited) |
Compaction I/O rate limit |
--pprof |
false |
Enable pprof HTTP handlers |
Set RUST_LOG=debug (or trace, info, warn) for log level control.
Set SEAWEED_WRITE_QUEUE=1 to enable batched async write processing.
Features
- Binary compatible -- reads and writes the same
.dat/.idx/.viffiles as the Go server; seamless migration with no data conversion. - HTTP + gRPC -- full implementation of the volume server HTTP API and all gRPC RPCs including streaming operations (copy, tail, incremental copy, vacuum).
- Master heartbeat -- bidirectional streaming heartbeat with the Go master server; volume and EC shard registration, leader failover, graceful shutdown deregistration.
- JWT authentication -- signing key configuration via
security.tomlwith token source precedence (query > header > cookie), file_id claims validation, and separate read/write keys. - TLS -- HTTPS for the HTTP API and mTLS for gRPC, configured through
security.toml. - Erasure coding -- Reed-Solomon EC shard management: mount/unmount, read, rebuild, copy, delete, and shard-to-volume reconstruction.
- S3 remote storage --
FetchAndWriteNeedlereads from any S3-compatible backend (AWS, MinIO, Wasabi, Backblaze, etc.) and writes locally. SupportsVolumeTierMoveDatToRemote/FromRemotefor tiered storage. - Needle map backends -- in-memory HashMap, LevelDB (via
rusty-leveldb), or redb (pure Rust disk-backed) needle maps. - Image processing -- on-the-fly resize/crop, JPEG EXIF orientation auto-fix, WebP support.
- Streaming reads -- large files (>1MB) are streamed via
spawn_blockingto avoid blocking the async runtime. - Auto-compression -- compressible file types (text, JSON, CSS, JS, SVG, etc.) are gzip-compressed on upload.
- Prometheus metrics -- counters, histograms, and gauges exported at a dedicated metrics port; optional push gateway support.
- Graceful shutdown -- SIGINT/SIGTERM handling with configurable
preStopSecondsdrain period.
Testing
Rust unit tests
cd seaweed-volume
cargo test
Go integration tests
The Go test suite can target either the Go or Rust volume server via the VOLUME_SERVER_IMPL environment variable:
# Run all HTTP + gRPC integration tests against the Rust server
VOLUME_SERVER_IMPL=rust go test -v -count=1 -timeout 1200s \
./test/volume_server/grpc/... ./test/volume_server/http/...
# Run a single test
VOLUME_SERVER_IMPL=rust go test -v -count=1 -timeout 60s \
-run "TestName" ./test/volume_server/http/...
# Run S3 remote storage tests
VOLUME_SERVER_IMPL=rust go test -v -count=1 -timeout 180s \
-run "TestFetchAndWriteNeedle" ./test/volume_server/grpc/...
Load testing
A load test harness is available at test/volume_server/loadtest/. See that directory for usage instructions and scenarios.
Architecture
The server runs three listeners concurrently:
- HTTP (Axum 0.7) -- admin and public routers for file upload/download, status, and stats endpoints.
- gRPC (Tonic 0.12) -- all
VolumeServerRPCs from the SeaweedFS protobuf definition. - Metrics (optional) -- Prometheus scrape endpoint on a separate port.
Key source modules:
| Path | Description |
|---|---|
src/main.rs |
Entry point, server startup, signal handling |
src/config.rs |
CLI parsing and configuration resolution |
src/server/volume_server.rs |
HTTP router setup and middleware |
src/server/handlers.rs |
HTTP request handlers (read, write, delete, status) |
src/server/grpc_server.rs |
gRPC service implementation |
src/server/heartbeat.rs |
Master heartbeat loop |
src/storage/volume.rs |
Volume read/write/delete logic |
src/storage/needle.rs |
Needle (file entry) serialization |
src/storage/store.rs |
Multi-volume store management |
src/security.rs |
JWT validation and IP whitelist guard |
src/remote_storage/ |
S3 remote storage backend |
See DEV_PLAN.md for the full development history and feature checklist.