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Zhengchao An f40abbb9f2 docs(architecture): unify per-object generation authority (#4912)
Add the shared design/contract document for backlog #1326: a single
per-object generation authority (the #1312 fencing epoch) that spans
commit fencing, read lease, prepared pool read, quota reservation, and
old-dir GC. Pins the five cross-cutting constraints once - RPC signature
binding with server-side nonce enforcement, xl.meta encoding contract
(no meta_ver bump, no positional FileInfo field, internal metadata map
under the dual-key contract), proto3 optional presence, mixed-version
fallback direction, and cluster-level capability negotiation - so the
implementation sub-issues follow them rather than each re-deciding.

No product code changes.
2026-07-16 22:29:07 +08:00

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Architecture Documentation

Durable architecture reference for RustFS: migration guardrails, runtime contracts, boundary rules, and support matrices.

Two rules keep this directory healthy:

  1. Durable reference only. One-shot implementation plans, task trackers, and PR templates do not belong in the repository — keep them in the issue tracker or your local worktree. When their work closes, delete them rather than archiving them here.
  2. No copies of other sources of truth. Crate lists come from Cargo.toml, CI steps from .github/workflows/ci.yml, code structure from the code. scripts/check_doc_paths.sh fails the pre-commit gate when a doc here references a file path that no longer exists.

Start here

  • overview.md — migration baseline, phase order, core principles

CI-enforced core (required by scripts/check_architecture_migration_rules.sh)

Contracts & invariants

Support matrices (release-facing, keep current)

Inventories & baselines (snapshots that feed migration work)

Historical plans and trackers (rebalance/decommission phases, migration-progress ledger, and the one-shot migration snapshots that fed it — startup timeline, scheduler baseline, profiling/NUMA capability inventory, KMS development defaults inventory) were retired in 2026-07 once the architecture-review ledger they served closed out (backlog#660/#665). Planning documents are no longer kept in the repository.