docs(object-data-cache): state the correctness boundary and the timing channel The crate doc still described itself as "a minimal skeleton for the initial rollout phase", which stopped being true several releases ago, and neither the crate nor the operator-facing env constant said anything about what the cache does or does not guarantee. Record two things a reader has to know. The correctness boundary: a hit is sound because the key matched metadata the caller just resolved from a read quorum, not because invalidation ran. Process-local invalidation is hygiene that frees capacity; the key is what keeps a stale body from being served. Anyone tempted to weaken the key should meet this sentence first. The timing side channel: a hit skips the erasure read, bitrot verify and decode, so it is reliably faster than a miss. A principal authorized to read an object can time a single GET and learn whether someone read that object within the entry's lifetime. This crosses no authorization boundary — the probe needs read access to that exact object, checked before the cache is consulted — but it does disclose a co-tenant's recent access pattern. Say so where operators look: on RUSTFS_OBJECT_DATA_CACHE_ENABLE. Timing noise would cost precisely the latency the cache exists to save, so the mitigation is to leave the cache off for buckets where access-pattern confidentiality matters. Refs: backlog#1139 Co-authored-by: heihutu <heihutu@gmail.com>
RustFS Config - Configuration Management
Configuration management and validation module for RustFS distributed object storage
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📖 Overview
RustFS Config provides configuration management and validation capabilities for the RustFS distributed object storage system. For the complete RustFS experience, please visit the main RustFS repository.
✨ Features
- Multi-format configuration support (TOML, YAML, JSON, ENV)
- Environment variable integration and override
- Configuration validation and type safety
- Hot-reload capabilities for dynamic updates
- Default value management and fallbacks
- Secure credential handling and encryption
📚 Documentation
For comprehensive documentation, examples, and usage guides, please visit the main RustFS repository.
Environment Variable Naming Conventions
RustFS uses a flat naming style for top-level configuration: environment variables are RUSTFS_* without nested module segments.
Examples:
RUSTFS_REGIONRUSTFS_ADDRESSRUSTFS_VOLUMESRUSTFS_LICENSERUSTFS_LICENSE_PUBLIC_KEY
Current guidance:
- Prefer module-specific names only when they are not top-level product configuration.
- Renamed variables must keep backward-compatible aliases until before beta.
- Alias usage must emit deprecation warnings and be treated as transitional only.
- Deprecated example:
RUSTFS_ENABLE_SCANNER->RUSTFS_SCANNER_ENABLEDRUSTFS_ENABLE_HEAL->RUSTFS_HEAL_ENABLEDRUSTFS_DATA_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS->RUSTFS_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS
License environment variables
RUSTFS_LICENSEcontains the signed license token.RUSTFS_LICENSE_PUBLIC_KEYcontains the RSA public key used to verify signed license tokens.
CORS environment variables
RUSTFS_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINSdefaults to empty, so the S3 endpoint emits no generic CORS headers unless configured. Set*for wildcard origins without credentials, or a comma-separated allow-list for credentialed explicit origins.RUSTFS_CONSOLE_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINSdefaults to*for the console service.
Browser redirect environment variables
RUSTFS_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URLsets the externally reachable browser origin used for OIDC callback, console success redirect, and logout fallback URLs. Configure it to the public scheme and authority without a path, for examplehttps://console.example.com. In load-balancer deployments, keep OIDC authorize and callback requests on the same backend node because the in-flight OIDCstateis local to the RustFS node.
Scanner environment aliases
RUSTFS_SCANNER_SPEED(canonical, also acceptsMINIO_SCANNER_SPEED)RUSTFS_SCANNER_DELAY(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_MAX_WAIT_SECS(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_CYCLE(canonical, also acceptsMINIO_SCANNER_CYCLE)RUSTFS_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS(canonical)RUSTFS_DATA_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS(deprecated alias for compatibility)RUSTFS_SCANNER_IDLE_MODE(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_CACHE_SAVE_TIMEOUT_SECS(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_CYCLE_MAX_DURATION_SECS(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_CYCLE_MAX_OBJECTS(canonical)RUSTFS_SCANNER_CYCLE_MAX_DIRECTORIES(canonical)
Mmap read environment aliases
RUSTFS_OBJECT_MMAP_READ_ENABLE(canonical)RUSTFS_OBJECT_ZERO_COPY_ENABLE(deprecated alias for compatibility)
Health compatibility switches
RUSTFS_HEALTH_ENDPOINT_ENABLE- controls canonical
/health,/health/live, and/health/readyendpoint exposure.
- controls canonical
RUSTFS_HEALTH_MINIMAL_RESPONSE_ENABLE- enables minimal payload mode for GET health responses (
status,readyonly).
- enables minimal payload mode for GET health responses (
RUSTFS_HEALTH_READINESS_CACHE_TTL_MS- TTL for readiness cache evaluation.
RUSTFS_HEALTH_COMPAT_BUSY_CHECK_ENABLE- enables busy protection behavior for health probes.
- default is
false.
RUSTFS_HEALTH_COMPAT_BUSY_MAX_ACTIVE_REQUESTS- max active HTTP requests; health probes return
429when active requests reach or exceed this value. 0disables thresholding even if busy protection is enabled.
- max active HTTP requests; health probes return
RUSTFS_HEALTH_COMPAT_KMS_READY_CHECK_ENABLE- enables KMS readiness enforcement for
/health/ready. - default is
false.
- enables KMS readiness enforcement for
Drive timeout environment variables
RUSTFS_DRIVE_METADATA_TIMEOUT_SECSRUSTFS_DRIVE_DISK_INFO_TIMEOUT_SECSRUSTFS_DRIVE_LIST_DIR_TIMEOUT_SECSRUSTFS_DRIVE_WALKDIR_TIMEOUT_SECSRUSTFS_DRIVE_WALKDIR_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECS
Legacy compatibility fallback:
RUSTFS_DRIVE_MAX_TIMEOUT_DURATIONThis legacy variable is treated as a deprecated fallback for the operation-specific drive timeout variables above when a canonical variable is unset.
Drive timeout health-action policy:
RUSTFS_DRIVE_TIMEOUT_HEALTH_ACTIONmark_failure(default): timeout marks failure and may transition drive runtime state.ignore_scanner: timeout does not mark failure for scanner-sensitive operations (walk_dir,read_metadata,list_dir,disk_info).
Drive timeout profile preset:
RUSTFS_DRIVE_TIMEOUT_PROFILEdefault(default): keep current timeout defaults.high_latency: use 60s default timeout for scanner-sensitive operations when no per-operation timeout override is set (read_metadata,disk_info,list_dir,walk_dir,walk_dir_stall).
- Precedence:
- Explicit per-operation timeout env (
RUSTFS_DRIVE_*_TIMEOUT_SECS) takes highest precedence. - Then
RUSTFS_DRIVE_MAX_TIMEOUT_DURATIONlegacy fallback. - Then the profile-derived default (
defaultorhigh_latency).
- Explicit per-operation timeout env (
Startup filesystem boundary policy
RUSTFS_UNSUPPORTED_FS_POLICYcontrols startup behavior when RustFS detects local endpoint filesystems that are outside the supported production boundary.warn(default): log warning and continue startup.fail: abort startup with an error.
RustFS production guidance remains direct-attached local POSIX filesystems. Network-mounted filesystems (for example nfs, cifs, smb2, and fuse.*) are treated as unsupported by this startup guard.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.
