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houseme 95819cb986 docs(object-data-cache): state the correctness boundary and timing channel (#4695)
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>
2026-07-11 02:37:34 +08:00
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RustFS

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_REGION
  • RUSTFS_ADDRESS
  • RUSTFS_VOLUMES
  • RUSTFS_LICENSE
  • RUSTFS_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_ENABLED
    • RUSTFS_ENABLE_HEAL -> RUSTFS_HEAL_ENABLED
    • RUSTFS_DATA_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS -> RUSTFS_SCANNER_START_DELAY_SECS

License environment variables

  • RUSTFS_LICENSE contains the signed license token.
  • RUSTFS_LICENSE_PUBLIC_KEY contains the RSA public key used to verify signed license tokens.

CORS environment variables

  • RUSTFS_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS defaults 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_ORIGINS defaults to * for the console service.

Browser redirect environment variables

  • RUSTFS_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL sets 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 example https://console.example.com. In load-balancer deployments, keep OIDC authorize and callback requests on the same backend node because the in-flight OIDC state is local to the RustFS node.

Scanner environment aliases

  • RUSTFS_SCANNER_SPEED (canonical, also accepts MINIO_SCANNER_SPEED)
  • RUSTFS_SCANNER_DELAY (canonical)
  • RUSTFS_SCANNER_MAX_WAIT_SECS (canonical)
  • RUSTFS_SCANNER_CYCLE (canonical, also accepts MINIO_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/ready endpoint exposure.
  • RUSTFS_HEALTH_MINIMAL_RESPONSE_ENABLE
    • enables minimal payload mode for GET health responses (status, ready only).
  • 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 429 when active requests reach or exceed this value.
    • 0 disables thresholding even if busy protection is enabled.
  • RUSTFS_HEALTH_COMPAT_KMS_READY_CHECK_ENABLE
    • enables KMS readiness enforcement for /health/ready.
    • default is false.

Drive timeout environment variables

  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_METADATA_TIMEOUT_SECS
  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_DISK_INFO_TIMEOUT_SECS
  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_LIST_DIR_TIMEOUT_SECS
  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_WALKDIR_TIMEOUT_SECS
  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_WALKDIR_STALL_TIMEOUT_SECS

Legacy compatibility fallback:

  • RUSTFS_DRIVE_MAX_TIMEOUT_DURATION This 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_ACTION
    • mark_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_PROFILE
    • default (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_DURATION legacy fallback.
    • Then the profile-derived default (default or high_latency).

Startup filesystem boundary policy

  • RUSTFS_UNSUPPORTED_FS_POLICY controls 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.