* volume: give Volume interior locks mirroring Go's Volume's mutable state moves behind interior locks matching Go's per-volume lock domains, so the store can hand out shared handles instead of requiring exclusive &mut access: - io: RwLock<VolumeIo> owns the .dat/remote handles, needle map, append cursor, compaction bookkeeping and write watermarks — Go's dataFileAccessLock-adjacent mutable set; helpers take the guard as &mut VolumeIo so nothing re-locks. - super_block and volume_info each get a RwLock (superBlockAccessLock, volumeInfoRWLock); dir_idx gets its own so path building never contends with I/O. - no_write packs Go's noWriteLock pair into AtomicU8; last_modified_ts_seconds and compaction_byte_per_second become atomics. The data-file write lease (dataFileAccessLock) now covers every mutating entry that previously relied on borrow exclusivity: writes, deletes, blob writes, set_writable's flag/index swap, remote-file updates, local-backend swaps, index relocation, replica-placement rewrite, put_needle_index, close and destroy. set_read_only_persist leases only its can_delete idx-attach branch because mark_io_unavailable reaches it under a held lease. commit_compact takes try_write_lock — callers hold the store lock, so blocking would stall every volume behind one slow reader; WouldBlock surfaces as COMMIT_WAITS_FOR_READS for the caller to retry. Lock order is fixed: lease -> io -> volume_info/super_block/dir_idx. * storage: mount volumes as shared Arc<Volume> handles DiskLocation's map owns Arc<Volume> so the store can hand a caller a handle that stays valid across store-guard releases, instead of borrowing &mut Volume under the store write lock. - volumes: HashMap<VolumeId, Arc<Volume>>; find_volume returns a cloned Arc. - find_volume_mut and volumes_mut are gone — every Volume method is &self now, so shared handles cover what exclusive borrows did. - writable_volume_mut -> writable_volume(&self) -> Result<Arc<Volume>> keeps the same admission checks (exists, disk-space-low). - write_volume_needle/write_volume_needles/delete_volume_needle are &self; lifecycle methods that mutate the map or mounted state stay &mut self. * server: run needle I/O with the store guard released The store write lock previously wrapped needle writes and deletes end-to-end: process_batch held it across every grouped fsync, and the HTTP/gRPC fallbacks, tail receiver and fetch-and-write paths did the same. One volume's slow I/O then stalled admission and metadata on every other volume. - write_queue resolves each group's handle via writable_volume under a brief store read, then runs write_needles_grouped after the guard drops. - HTTP write/DELETE fallbacks, the gRPC batch-delete EC recheck + delete, tail receiver and fetch_and_write local writes, blob writes and the quarantine/sync/set_writable/remote-file paths all run under store.read() now that every volume method they reach is &self. - Lifecycle calls that mutate the volume map or mounted state (mount/unmount/delete, EC shard ops, compaction commits, load_new_volumes, heartbeat volume actions) keep store.write(). * test: cross-volume admission proceeds during another volume's write Regression coverage for the store-lock fix: - write_queue's test parks a volume-1 write inside its .dat append via a new needle_write_hook seam (mirroring needle_read_hook), then proves the store still hands out a lifecycle writer and a volume-2 handle — while volume 1's data-file lease still excludes same-volume writers. - tests/store_lock_repro.rs exercises the public API: concurrent read-guarded writes on two volumes, and a stale Arc<Volume> handle failing closed after unmount instead of writing into torn-down files. * test: drop store write guards that shared handles made read-only Test setup sites held store.write() purely to reach find_volume_mut; with Arc<Volume> and &self methods the guard is read-only (clippy readonly_write_lock). The volume lease still serializes the writes inside. * volume: drop a windows-only read_exact_at that shadows the io helper cargo's windows build failed E0255: the free fn copied with the interior-lock conversion collided with the unconditional crate::storage::io::read_exact_at import, which already carries the platform branches internally. * server: release the store read guard before needle I/O The read guard still ran through write_needle_blob_and_index, the tail receiver write, the fetch-and-write local write, and the HTTP write and DELETE fallbacks, so a slow append blocked mount/unmount writers (and, on writer-preferring locks, readers on other volumes). Resolve the Arc<Volume> under a short guard and write through the handle after it drops — the same scoping process_batch already used. * volume: serialize the read-only mark and its .vif save under the lease set_read_only_persist only leased the idx-attach branch, so concurrent mark-readonly and mark-writable calls could interleave flag updates and .vif writes — including two save_vif calls truncating and writing the file at once. The lease now spans the whole flag change and save, with a _held variant for mark_io_unavailable, which reaches this from write paths already holding the lease (Go: markVolumeReadonly runs under dataFileAccessLock). * volume,server: span the tier-down transition under one write lease update_remote_files cleared the remote-only write restriction and released its lease before open_local_dat_backend attached the local file, so a write could slip into the gap — pass check_writable, then fail appending to a missing dat_file. The handler now holds the lease across the reference trim, .vif save, and backend swap (and the rollback re-insert), via _held variants; the store read guard is scoped to the handle lookup. The swap still lands after the .vif trim — the ordering that keeps a crash from pointing the volume at a deleted remote object. * server: run a batch's volume groups on separate scoped threads A single batch can hold writes for several volumes; running the groups sequentially made every later volume wait behind a stalled append on an earlier one — the same head-of-line blocking the store guard release fixed, one level up. Each group now gets a scoped thread, preserving order within a group while independent volumes progress in parallel. * storage: close a volume handle a mount slot replaces With shared handles, inserting a new Volume over an existing map entry left the old handle alive in callers — two Volume instances could then write the same files with separate in-memory indexes. set_volume and create_volume now close() the replaced handle so its writers fail closed, matching what unload_volume already does. * test: key the write hook off a reserved needle id The hook registry is process-global and keyed by needle id, and other parallel tests write NeedleId(1) — an unrelated write could enter the barriers and leave the test's real writer parked forever. * server: wait out readers for vacuum commit without the store guard commit_compact try-locked the write lease because callers held the store write lock, returning COMMIT_WAITS_FOR_READS while a download was in flight — and the master reads that as a failed vacuum, discarding completed compaction work. The commit RPC now resolves the handle under a brief store read and blocks on the volume's lease, matching Go's CommitCompact under dataFileAccessLock: a slow reader stalls only this volume's vacuum. The try-lock path stays for callers that still hold the store lock. * server: scope the remaining store read guards to volume lookup Same class as the write-path fix: the batch-delete cookie check and tombstone, the query read, volume_needle_status, and the local chunk read all kept the read guard through the needle operation, so slow I/O there could still stall store writers. Each now resolves the Arc<Volume> under a short guard; the EC rechecks keep their guards. * seaweed-volume: fail closed on detached volume handles A handle resolved under a brief store read can outlive its mount: an unmount+remount between lookup and lease leaves the Arc pointing at a closed Volume while a new instance owns the files. Mark the handle in close() and reject it under the write lease in commit_compact_held, delete_needle, check_writable, set_read_only_persist and update_remote_files_held; the tier-down handler also checks the flag before deleting a remote object its replacement still reads. * seaweed-volume: drop the store guard before mark-readonly waits on the lease mark_volume_readonly held a store read across set_read_only_persist, which waits out the volume's leased readers; a slow download would stall every lifecycle operation behind the guard. Resolve the handle under a short read, then mark off the guard; a detached handle now maps to not_found. * seaweed-volume: retry batch deletes that raced an EC mount The store guard now drops before delete_needle, so ec.encode can mount shards between the pre-delete recheck and the tombstone; the encode then removes the .dat and the needle resurrects from pre-tombstone shards. Re-check has_ec_volume after each successful delete and return the retriable 503 so the filer requeues onto the EC path. * seaweed-volume: one write-queue worker per volume A stalled batch kept later batches for other volumes queued behind it: the single worker awaited process_batch before receiving again. Go's volume_write.go keeps one batching worker per volume, so give each volume its own FIFO worker spawned lazily, bounded by a global concurrent grouped-I/O semaphore and a global queued-request bound; workers exit only when their channel closes, and submit refuses unknown volume ids before spawning. * seaweed-volume: move the queued-write permit inside the request submit held the global queued-slot permit across the send and the response wait, so a canceled submit freed the slot while the worker still held the needle; repeated cancels could overflow the bound. The request now owns the permit until the worker drops it. * seaweed-volume: retire write workers whose volume left the store worker_for kept a sender per volume forever, so servers that mount and retire volumes accumulated idle workers. A worker now polls while idle and retires once its volume leaves the store: close the channel so racing senders fail fast, drain accepted writes, then release the map slot — a replacement worker can never start while this one still holds queued writes, so same-volume FIFO survives retirement.
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 |
--compactionMaxParallelCommits |
0 (unlimited) |
Max concurrent vacuum commits |
--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.