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<title>features/bit-rot: filesystem scrubber</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T17:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venky Shankar</name>
<email>vshankar@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-03-13T15:53:20+00:00</published>
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Scrubber performs signature verification for objects that were
signed by signer. This is done by recalculating the signature
(using the hash algorithm the object was signed with) and
verifying it aginst the objects persisted signature. Since the
object could be undergoing IO opretaion at the time of hash
calculation, the signature may not match objects persisted
signature. Bitrot stub provides additional information about
the stalesness of an objects signature (determinted by it's
versioning mechanism). This additional bit of information is
used by scrubber to determine the staleness of the signature,
and in such cases the object is skipped verification (although
signature staleness is performed twice: once before initiation
of hash calculation and another after it (an object could be
modified after staleness checks).

The implmentation is a part of the bitrot xlator (signer) which
acts as a signer or scrubber based on a translator option. As
of now the scrub process is ever running (but has some form of
weak throttling mechanism during filesystem scan). Going forward,
there needs to be some form of scrub scheduling and IO throttling
(during hash calculation) tunables (via CLI).

Change-Id: I665ce90208f6074b98c5a1dd841ce776627cc6f9
BUG: 1170075
Original-Author: Raghavendra Bhat &lt;rabhat@redhat.com&gt;
Original-Author: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9914
Tested-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
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Scrubber performs signature verification for objects that were
signed by signer. This is done by recalculating the signature
(using the hash algorithm the object was signed with) and
verifying it aginst the objects persisted signature. Since the
object could be undergoing IO opretaion at the time of hash
calculation, the signature may not match objects persisted
signature. Bitrot stub provides additional information about
the stalesness of an objects signature (determinted by it's
versioning mechanism). This additional bit of information is
used by scrubber to determine the staleness of the signature,
and in such cases the object is skipped verification (although
signature staleness is performed twice: once before initiation
of hash calculation and another after it (an object could be
modified after staleness checks).

The implmentation is a part of the bitrot xlator (signer) which
acts as a signer or scrubber based on a translator option. As
of now the scrub process is ever running (but has some form of
weak throttling mechanism during filesystem scan). Going forward,
there needs to be some form of scrub scheduling and IO throttling
(during hash calculation) tunables (via CLI).

Change-Id: I665ce90208f6074b98c5a1dd841ce776627cc6f9
BUG: 1170075
Original-Author: Raghavendra Bhat &lt;rabhat@redhat.com&gt;
Original-Author: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9914
Tested-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>features/bit-rot: Implementation of bit-rot xlator</title>
<updated>2015-03-24T17:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venky Shankar</name>
<email>vshankar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-15T09:35:19+00:00</published>
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This is the "Signer" -- responsible for signing files with their
checksums upon last file descriptor close (last release()).
The event notification facility provided by the changelog xlator
is made use of.

Moreover, checksums are as of now SHA256 hash of the object data
and is the only available hash at this point of time. Therefore,
there is no special "what hash to use" type check, although it's
does not take much to add various hashing algorithms to sign
objects with. Signatures are stored in extended attributes of the
objects along with the the type of hashing used to calculate the
signature. This makes thing future proof when other hash types
are added. The signature  infrastructure is provided by bitrot
stub: a little piece of code that sits over the POSIX xlator
providing interfaces to "get or set" objects signature and it's
staleness.

Since objects are signed upon receiving release() notification,
pre-existing data which are "never" modified would never be
signed. To counter this, an initial crawler thread is spawned
The crawler scans the entire brick for objects that are unsigned
or "missed" signing due to the server going offline (node reboots,
crashes, etc..) and triggers an explicit sign. This would also
sign objects when bit-rot is enabled for a volume and/or after
upgrade.

Change-Id: I1d9a98bee6cad1c39c35c53c8fb0fc4bad2bf67b
BUG: 1170075
Original-Author: Raghavendra Bhat &lt;raghavendra@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9711
Tested-by: Gluster Build System &lt;jenkins@build.gluster.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
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This is the "Signer" -- responsible for signing files with their
checksums upon last file descriptor close (last release()).
The event notification facility provided by the changelog xlator
is made use of.

Moreover, checksums are as of now SHA256 hash of the object data
and is the only available hash at this point of time. Therefore,
there is no special "what hash to use" type check, although it's
does not take much to add various hashing algorithms to sign
objects with. Signatures are stored in extended attributes of the
objects along with the the type of hashing used to calculate the
signature. This makes thing future proof when other hash types
are added. The signature  infrastructure is provided by bitrot
stub: a little piece of code that sits over the POSIX xlator
providing interfaces to "get or set" objects signature and it's
staleness.

Since objects are signed upon receiving release() notification,
pre-existing data which are "never" modified would never be
signed. To counter this, an initial crawler thread is spawned
The crawler scans the entire brick for objects that are unsigned
or "missed" signing due to the server going offline (node reboots,
crashes, etc..) and triggers an explicit sign. This would also
sign objects when bit-rot is enabled for a volume and/or after
upgrade.

Change-Id: I1d9a98bee6cad1c39c35c53c8fb0fc4bad2bf67b
BUG: 1170075
Original-Author: Raghavendra Bhat &lt;raghavendra@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar &lt;vshankar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9711
Tested-by: Gluster Build System &lt;jenkins@build.gluster.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur &lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;
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