fix(seaweedfs): raise the bucket ceiling by sizing volumes smaller by lexfrei · Pull Request #4251 · cozystack/cozystack

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-14T20:34:02Z

What this PR does

Raises how many buckets a SeaweedFS instance can serve, by lowering the master's volumeSizeLimitMB from 1000 to 400 and its two-copy growth count from 6 to 3. The size limit is exposed on the app chart, where an operator can reach it. Existing instances stay at 1000 unless they already name a limit, so for them the upgrade changes only the growth count. A platform migration does that where migrations run; on the default variant it is a manual step before upgrading. A unit test pins each constant separately, and an e2e case creates several buckets and requires each to take a write.

Late in a full e2e run every S3 PUT starts timing out and a backup suite fails its access preflight. It reads like a credentials or COSI problem and is not one: the instance has no volume slots left, so the master cannot grow a volume for a newly created bucket. The disk is still almost entirely free, which is what makes it look like a flake. The COSI objects say nothing either way, the claim is ready and the access is granted.

The ceiling

A volume server started with -max 0 takes a slot count derived from disk rather than a fixed one, replication 001 spends a slot on each of the two servers per logical volume, and a collection claims COPY_2 volumes each time it grows. So the ceiling is set by the product of the size limit and COPY_2, and moving either number alone moves it. The mechanism is upstream in MaybeAdjustVolumeMax (weed/storage/store.go) and findVolumeCount (weed/topology/volume_growth.go); what matters for choosing the numbers is only that upshot.

Do not divide the slot figures out of the nominal PVC size, because what the server counts is the space the filesystem makes available and not the volume's advertised size. At the upstream 1000 and 6 a 10Gi volume PVC gives nine slots per server and two collections, which the platform's own cozy-backups bucket and a single tenant bucket already use. That same PVC was seen to give nineteen slots at 500, which puts 400 at twenty-three to twenty-four by the same division, or eight collections. The span is the observation's own: the free space behind nineteen at 500 fits more than one filesystem geometry, and those divide differently at 400. Eight either way, because a collection that cannot get a whole batch of COPY_2 keeps the volumes it did get and writes into them, so the count rounds up rather than down.

Every figure here is for the shipped replicationFactor: 2. The master picks which of its four growth counts to apply from the replication the filer asks for, and the filer takes that from replicationFactor, so at 1 or 3 copies it reads COPY_1 or COPY_3 and the COPY_2 this PR sets does not apply. Lowering the size limit still raises the ceiling there, since it is the divisor whatever the replication is.

I measured this instead of only deriving it, on the real weed 4.31 binary: one master, two volume servers with -max 0, each on its own 1 GB filesystem image, replication 001, then one assign per fresh collection until the master refused. Scaled 10:1 against the 10Gi PVC, so the limits scale with it.

`volumeSizeLimitMB`	`COPY_2`	slots reported	collections served
100	6	10	2
100	3	10	4
50	3	20	7
40	3	25	9
25	6	40	7

The fourth row is the pair this PR ships. The refusal arrives as No writable volumes and no free volumes left, with volumes == max on both servers and the disk nearly empty. The reported max matched the space the filesystem made available over the limit in every run, which is the rule the PVC figures above are divided with. Those runs sit on a 1 GB image, so their counts are the rule's, not the PVC's: a 10Gi volume has its own filesystem geometry and divides to its own numbers.

Why both constants move

The last two rows are the argument: lowering the size limit and lowering the growth count reach the same ceiling. They do not cost the same. Open descriptors scale with stored bytes rather than with the PVC, so at 400 a 10 TiB server keeps roughly 52k of them against 21k upstream, where taking the whole reduction out of the size limit would have put it at 105k, well past a 65536 nofile limit where one is set. Two stay open per volume, a .dat and an .idx; the .vif beside them is written and closed. That cost lands hardest on large instances, which never had a ceiling problem in the first place: at any of these limits a multi-TiB PVC has slots to spare. Lowering the growth count costs no descriptors at all. It costs write spread, since a bucket then spreads its writes over three volumes rather than six, and that cost is flat, it does not grow with the instance.

So the reduction is split across both. Neither number is a new bet: 3 is what upstream already uses for three-copy replication.

One price is shared by both routes. A collection absorbs volumeSizeLimitMB × COPY_2 before it needs another grow, so growth requests arrive five times as often as they did at 6000 MB. A collection also starts with half as many writable volumes at replicationFactor: 2, and a volume server takes the writes into each volume one at a time, so a heavily parallel writer spreads over fewer volumes until the collection grows again. That holds for instances kept at 1000 too.

On upgrade

On a variant that runs platform migrations, the upgrade does not change the limit on an existing instance unless its operator already set one. Platform migration 57 writes master.volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000 into every existing SeaweedFS instance that has not chosen a limit, except one whose master is not an object (below), so 400 applies only to instances created after this release. The default variant runs no platform migrations. A cluster there that installed SeaweedFS by hand has to apply the same patch before upgrading, and the operations guide has the command. Both guide steps end with a complete line. jq prints it only after reading the whole list, and the pinning loop stops at the first failed patch before it, so a run without that line is incomplete, whatever else it printed. A chosen limit is a whole number from 1 to 30000 and is kept. Anything else counts as not chosen and becomes 1000: the previous chart ignored the key and ran 1000 in its place, and the new schema would refuse it. A kept value other than 1000 takes effect with the upgrade itself. A lower one can strand buckets and a higher one takes the room new buckets grow into, so the guide has a query that lists those instances before upgrading. An instance kept at 1000 still gains: at replicationFactor: 2 a grow now claims three volumes instead of six, so it has room for about twice as many new buckets.

Three shapes get their own line in the Job log, with what they hold. A non-object spec.values is pinned too. helm-controller v1.5.0 ignores values it cannot read as a map and renders the chart defaults, so that instance runs at 1000 today and would drop to 400. The merge patch replaces the unreadable value, and nothing that applies is lost. A non-object master is left alone. Every v1 schema already refuses it, so that release does not render today, and the log says to set the limit in the same edit that repairs it. A valuesFrom with entries besides the cozystack-values Secret is named and pinned anyway. helm-controller merges spec.values over those entries, so a limit set there does not apply, unless it is set through targetPath, which can still win depending on the entries before it. The guide steps print the same three.

The value goes into the application's HelmRelease, whose spec.values is the application spec, so it covers an instance created through the API and one the tenant module renders alike, the platform's own in tenant-root included. The tenant module renders that release without spec.values, which a new tenant chart test pins, and a Helm upgrade leaves alone a key that neither the previous nor the new manifest carries: I measured that on a kind cluster with the real HelmRelease CRD and Helm 4.3.0, on client-side, server-side and forced server-side apply, and read createPatch at the v4.1.1 that helm-controller v1.5.0 runs. Where migrations run, the order comes from the platform release itself. The migration is its pre-upgrade hook, and the cozystack-packages source every application chart is built from is a manifest of that same release, applied only after the hooks finish, so no instance meets the new chart unstamped and a failed migration stops the platform upgrade before that source moves. That holds while the platform source is pinned by digest, as it is out of the box; a source that follows a tag, a semver range or a branch lets source-controller move cozystack-packages on its own schedule, and an instance there can run at 400 until the migration has run. Until cozystack-packages moves, each patched release still runs its old chart, which ignores the key: no v1 release reads it, and none closes the master object in its values schema. The migration's test runs the script under the migrations image's shell against a fake kubectl that refuses any selector but the one cozystack-api lists SeaweedFS with, because an empty fleet is a legitimate answer and a mistyped selector would otherwise pass while pinning nothing. The same test runs the two guide steps, found by a marker comment above each, against the same fake and checks that they select the same releases as the migration.

Lowering an existing instance is left to its operator, because it is not free. Its volumes between the new limit and the old go oversized on the next heartbeat and leave the master's writable set, and each affected collection needs one successful grow before its next write lands. Nothing is lost and the volumes stay readable. Those grows compete for one pool, and the budget is per collection rather than per server. An oversized volume is charged no headroom while one below the limit is charged all of its unfilled room, so the slots open to a stranded collection are free space less that room, divided by the limit; a grow then claims a whole COPY_2 batch and takes as much of it as is there, and the volumes it creates are empty and charge their headroom straight back. Measured on the rig: two oversized collections with two free slots between them, and the first to write took both, leaving the second refused afterwards with the disk still reporting a quarter of itself free. Collections that keep writing are not free either: they were grown six at a time, and each of their volumes below 400 MB can hold back a whole 400 MB. Measured at a scaled pair, a server with free space for one batch per collection refused the only grow it needed, because a second, nearly empty collection held the room, and the same free space without that collection let the grow through. The master also grows, on its own schedule and with no write, any collection with no writable volume at or below 90 percent of the limit, which at 400 is 360 MB; measured at the same scaled pair, a collection with every volume in that band got two new volumes per server within one pass while a roomy one was left alone. So the precondition on every volume server is a batch for each collection with no volume at or below that line plus 400 MB for each volume still below the limit, and no volume size exempts an instance from it, since a larger volume carries more buckets and the budget scales with them. The minFreeSpacePercent reserve only comes into it on a server whose writable volumes have all passed the limit, since nothing there is charged headroom. It is five percent of what the filesystem reports rather than of the PVC's nominal size, so All >= 8000 MiB is where it reaches one 400 MB limit; a 10Gi PVC measures 9979 MiB and clears that, and such a server then refuses a grow only once its disk is down to the reserve. Everywhere else the headroom charge decides, and a refusal can come with the disk far from full whatever the reserve. Deleting a collection gives back a slot for each of its volumes, however little it stored, since the headroom charged to them leaves with them; only a server already at its reserve, where every volume is read-only and charged nothing, gets back no more than the bytes. Deleted objects return room only through a vacuum. The room left inside those volumes for further writes is given up and does not return as capacity, since such a volume is charged no headroom while its own bytes still come out of the budget. Lowering the growth count takes nothing away by contrast: no path removes a volume from the writable set for being surplus to the batch size, so an existing collection keeps what it has and converges as those volumes fill. docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md has the check for it, and the way back.

The ceiling cannot come out lower at any supported replicationFactor, which is the part worth stating plainly. The divisor halves, and the space the slot count is derived from grows at the same time, because a volume past the new limit stops being charged headroom against it. COPY_1 and COPY_3 are untouched, so at 1 and 3 copies the limit alone still moves the ceiling upward.

Reaching the value

Neither constant was reachable by an operator. The data-plane chart is pulled by ExternalArtifact, and the component publishing it declares no install section, so the reconciler drops a Package-level values override for it before any merge happens. Editing the chart was the only route, on a value whose right setting depends on the PVC size the operator chose. master.volumeSizeLimitMB is on the app chart now, with a schema entry.

Worth being precise about which file the two numbers end up living in, because exposing one of them moves it. The app chart's HelmRelease sends the size limit on every release, so packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.yaml holds the 400 installs run with, and packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml keeps upstream's 1000 as the fallback a render without it gets. That fallback is deliberate: a platform upgrade can re-render the data-plane release from its artifact before the parent has sent anything new, and a lower value there would then reach the master first and drop the limit ahead of an operator's own setting. Nothing sends the growth count, so the data-plane chart's value is the live one for that half, and it is the part that does land in that window, where a grow costs 3000 MB against the 6000 MB it cost before. The budget the pair produces is written out next to the growth count, with a pointer from the size limit to it, so the two do not drift apart.

The field is bounded at both ends, because either end takes an instance down. Zero is not a smaller limit but an off switch: the volume server leaves its slot calculation untouched at zero, keeps reporting no capacity, and nothing is ever grown. Past 30000 the master does not start at all, exiting on volumeSizeLimitMB should be smaller than 30000. The bound lives in the values schema, through the generator's @minimum and @maximum annotations, so Helm refuses the value before any template runs. The apps API reads that schema only for defaults, so it accepts a value out of range, and the release then fails to render. A case pins each edge along with the value just outside it. An explicit null gets past both bounds, because Helm drops a null key before it validates, and would reach the master as an empty -volumeSizeLimitMB= that the shipped image exits on at start, so the template requires the value and a case pins that as well.

There is no second bound against the disk, and not for want of trying: a limit at or above the volume's own size does not break an instance. MaybeAdjustVolumeMax floors the slot count at one, and a 255 MiB disk against a 1000 MB limit reported Max 1, took an assign for a fresh collection and served back what was written to it. Such a server is capped at a single slot rather than dead, so a render refusal would stop a working release on every reconcile. The field description says instead that a value close to or above volume.size leaves each volume server a single slot.

The growth count is deliberately not exposed beside the limit. A field wired to COPY_2 would do nothing at 1 or 3 copies, for the reason above, while still looking like a setting, and a knob that is silently inert for two of the three supported values is worse than no knob. Making it track the replication factor is a feature with its own matrix, and it would rest on a path where the master's own default replication is separately broken. The size limit has no such dependency, so it is the one that ships.

Picking a value

400 is sized for the shipped volume.size: 10Gi, which is where the slot and collection figures above come from. Going up, it holds until the two descriptors per volume meet a 65536 nofile limit, roughly 12.5 TiB per volume server. Going down, an instance needs 1600 MB of filesystem per volume server to serve a second collection at all, since the first claims the opening three slots.

What the tests cover

The existing bucket case creates one bucket, which sits inside the ceiling at any sizing, so it could not tell a working ceiling from an exhausted one. The new e2e case creates three beside the platform's own backup bucket and requires each to accept an object, which is the only signal the exhaustion produces. Each mc call there carries its own timeout, since a hung PUT is exactly that signal and the step timeout alone would not end it. It was observed red at the old sizing in run 34948279363, which ran the case against the unchanged constants: the pre-existing single-bucket case passed in 18s beside it, and the new one failed on the write to the second bucket after the first succeeded. Three rather than two so the count clears the ceiling without depending on how many slots the unnamed default collection holds, which the suite cannot observe.

The unit tests pin each constant on its own, because losing one is a silent capacity regression rather than something a render would catch. The app-chart test asserts an overridden size limit as well as the default, since asserting the default alone passes just as well against a template that ignores the value and writes the number as a literal. It also pins both ends of the accepted range and the first value outside each, the -max 0 zero on all four render paths it is written to, and the 10Gi volume default the slot figures above are measured for, which nothing else guarded. The data-plane suite pins the five percent free-space reserve as well, since the 8000 MiB threshold above is computed from it and nothing else reads it.

The capacity case also reads the master's slot accounting in its catch. A grow failure in the master log does not say whether the shipped limit is too coarse for the PVC or an earlier collection in the same run is still holding the budget, and the per-server Max against Volumes does.

Closes #4239, closes #4245, closes #4248

Screenshots

No UI change.

Downstream repositories

Walked against the diff. The new field lands on packages/extra/seaweedfs, and the provider models bucket, generic, qdrant, redis and tenant, with no SeaweedFS resource among them, so there is no schema or expand/flatten pair over there for it to drift from. No package is added, renamed or removed, so the website app lists are untouched.

Release note

fix(seaweedfs): raise how many buckets a new SeaweedFS instance can serve on the default 10Gi volume PVC from two to eight at `replicationFactor: 2`, by defaulting the master volume size limit to 400 MB instead of 1000 and lowering the two-copy growth count from 6 to 3, and expose the limit as `master.volumeSizeLimitMB` on the app chart. **Action required on the `default` variant only:** it runs no platform migrations, so before upgrading, set `master.volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000` on every SeaweedFS instance that has no valid value and whose `master` is an object, with the step in [`docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md`](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack/blob/main/docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md). If this is skipped, every such instance drops to 400 on the upgrade, and a bucket whose volumes have all reached 400 MB takes no writes until it can grow. On the variants that run platform migrations, migration 57 does this: it sets `master.volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000` on every instance that has not chosen a value, except one whose `master` is not an object, which no v1 chart renders and which it names in its Job's log instead, so nothing changes for an instance unless it already names a different value, which the previous chart accepted and ignored and this one applies; the same guide lists such instances before the upgrade, and the migration names them in its Job's log. An existing value that is not a whole number from 1 to 30000 is replaced with 1000, which is what the previous chart applied in its place. Instances at 1000 still get roughly twice the room for new buckets from the lower growth count. The upgrade rolls every SeaweedFS master StatefulSet once, since the growth count is part of the master's environment, and an instance that names a value other than 1000 rolls a second time when that value arrives. The pin lives in the instance's spec, so a tool that replaces the whole resource from a manifest without `master.volumeSizeLimitMB` removes it and the instance takes 400; add the field to such manifests before upgrading. Lowering the limit on an instance that already holds data takes every volume at or above the new value out of the master's writable set, and raising it takes the room new buckets grow into, so the same guide describes the free-space check to run first and how to set it back.

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The change adds the SeaweedFS master.volumeSizeLimitMB setting, validates its bounds and rendered values, sets a system growth-copy value, and adds an end-to-end test for writes to three buckets.

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SeaweedFS capacity configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure volume capacity settings `packages/extra/seaweedfs/...`, `packages/system/seaweedfs/...`	Adds `volumeSizeLimitMB` to schemas and values. The chart validates and passes the setting to the master. The system chart sets `WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2` to `3`. Documentation describes the capacity behavior.
Validate rendered capacity settings `packages/extra/seaweedfs/tests/...`, `packages/system/seaweedfs/tests/...`	Tests defaults, overrides, boundary failures, automatic slot derivation, volume sizes, and growth-copy environment values.
Exercise bucket capacity end to end `hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/...`, `hack/e2e-chainsaw/.chainsaw.yaml`	Adds three buckets and a Chainsaw test that checks resource readiness, captures diagnostics, and writes and removes an object in each bucket.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Chainsaw
  participant KubernetesAPI
  participant SeaweedFSMaster
  participant S3Gateway
  Chainsaw->>KubernetesAPI: Apply cap1, cap2, and cap3
  KubernetesAPI->>SeaweedFSMaster: Reconcile bucket storage resources
  Chainsaw->>KubernetesAPI: Check HelmRelease, BucketClaim, and BucketAccess readiness
  Chainsaw->>S3Gateway: Write and remove probe objects in the three buckets

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The new assertions cover only the dedicated master and volume StatefulSets, but the same overlay also configures the supported all-in-one deployment through a separate command template. A regression in that command could leave all-in-one deployments at the old volume ceiling while these tests still pass. Render the all-in-one deployment here and assert its -master.volumeSizeLimitMB=250 and -volume.max=0 arguments as well.
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18 - 39, Extend the volume slot ceiling tests to render the supported all-in-one
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Verdict

NOT LGTM

Nothing executed here or on this head shows the new ceiling meets the demand it was sized for, and on the axis the comment itself says 250 gets wrong, the constant is not reachable from any values file a user edits.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/system/seaweedfs/tests/volume_slot_ceiling_test.yaml:27, the test pins the constant, nothing exercises the capacity it buys
[MAJOR] packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml:51, platform-wide constant with no override in the app chart or its schema

Evidence

The bug is runtime slot exhaustion, not a render bug, and nothing in the tree tells 1000 from 250:

$ grep -c "kind: Bucket" hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/bucket.yaml
1

One Bucket writing one small file passes at either value. What would separate them: a case creating several Buckets beside the platform's own cozy-backups, asserting each takes a write, red at 1000 and green at 250.

For the second finding, the app chart a user edits exposes no size limit, and neither does its schema:

$ grep -rn "volumeSizeLimitMB\|volume_size" packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.yaml packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.schema.json
$ echo "exit $?"
exit 1

The platform route does not carry it either: the component is declared with no install: block, and such components are skipped before any values merge.

$ grep -n -A2 "seaweedfs-system" packages/core/platform/sources/seaweedfs-application.yaml
24:        - name: seaweedfs-system
25-          path: system/seaweedfs

$ sed -n '207,210p' internal/operator/package_reconciler.go
		// Skip components without Install section
		if component.Install == nil {
			continue
		}

So a Package.spec.components["seaweedfs-system"].values override is dropped in silence, and editing the chart is the only way to move a value the comment says a larger PVC needs moved. Either expose master.volumeSizeLimitMB on the app, or state the PVC-size bound under which 250 is certified. What would change my mind: a maintainer position that 250 is right for every supported volume.size.

Claim mismatches

[UNVERIFIABLE] "The e2e lane is fixed for its measured demand". E2E is red on 9399d8f36, 7 of 55 suites, and never reached the state the issue describes: Not enough data nodes, No writable volumes and failed to pick occur 0 times in its 21 MB log. Those 7 are not this change: four backup round-trips die on strategy Kind ... is not supported by this controller while internal/backupcontroller/backupjob_controller.go:192-205 lists all four, so the lane ran a controller older than the tree; postgres is refused by the vcluster.cnpg.io webhook; kafka and opensearch fail unrelated assertions.

[PARTIAL] "copy_2 renders through master.config". It is already set as WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2: "6" (charts/seaweedfs/values.yaml:274), and 500MB with copy_2: 3 reaches the same five collections at half the file cost.

Caveats

On upgrade every volume already past 250MB leaves the writable set on the next heartbeat, so writes to that collection fail until a grow replaces them. At pinned 4.31, isOversized is v.Size >= vl.volumeSizeLimit (weed/topology/volume_layout.go:361) and that branch calls removeFromWritable (:337-341). The body's "stop taking new writes, which land on freshly grown volumes" is right about the destination and silent about the gap. No data is dropped, and this change makes the grow more likely to succeed, not less.
Checked at 4.31, not on a cluster: limit arrives by heartbeat, slots recompute live, expired() is TTL-gated. The 9-vs-39 arithmetic and Copy2Count: 6 hold. helm unittest 57/57, render-diff vs 79602e9ca clean. Not executed: volume-server restart at 4x the volume count on a multi-TiB PVC.

Follow-ups

Slot exhaustion surfaces only as PUT timeouts; an Event when a grow returns zero volumes would save the next operator the investigation.
packages/extra/seaweedfs/templates/seaweedfs.yaml:232 sets master.defaultReplicaPlacement, but the master template reads master.defaultReplication, so replicationFactor never reaches the master default.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T07:31:29Z

+  namespace: cozy-seaweedfs
+
+tests:
+  - it: starts the master with the pinned volume size limit


[MAJOR] the test pins the constant, nothing exercises the capacity it buys

The bug this PR fixes is runtime slot exhaustion, not a render bug: the Bucket is created, bucketReady: true, and the PUT then times out behind Not enough data nodes found. Both assertions here survive having the values reverted, so they are not vacuous, but what they hold is that the two flags render, not that 250 is enough for the demand the change was sized against.

Nothing else in the tree covers the property:

$ grep -c "kind: Bucket" hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/bucket.yaml 1

That one Bucket writes one small file, which passes at 1000 as well, so no case distinguishes the old value from the new one. A chainsaw case creating several Buckets alongside the platform's own cozy-backups (packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/bucket.yaml) and asserting each takes a write would be red at 1000 and green at 250.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T07:31:29Z

+    # have to track the smallest pool. Lowering master.volume_growth.copy_2
+    # through master.config would shrink the six instead, at an unmeasured
+    # cost to write spread within a collection.
+    volumeSizeLimitMB: 250


[MAJOR] platform-wide constant with no reachable override, on the axis the comment says it gets wrong

This value applies to every SeaweedFS instance on every cluster, not only the 10Gi e2e sandbox, and the comment directly above says a much larger PVC "is the reason to raise this limit again rather than lower it further" while shipping no way to raise it.

The app chart a user edits exposes no size limit, and neither does its schema:

$ grep -rn "volumeSizeLimitMB\\|volume_size" packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.yaml packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.schema.json $ echo "exit $?" exit 1

The platform route does not carry it either: seaweedfs-system is declared with no install: block in packages/core/platform/sources/seaweedfs-application.yaml:24, and internal/operator/package_reconciler.go:207-210 skips such components before the values merge, with no error and no event. So a Package.spec.components["seaweedfs-system"].values override is dropped in silence.

Consequence on upgrade: an existing install gets roughly four times the volume files for the same stored bytes, the cost the comment itself flags against a 65536 nofile limit, and editing the chart is the only escape.

Either expose it as a master.volumeSizeLimitMB field on the app, or state in the comment the PVC-size bound under which 250 is being certified. What would change my mind: a maintainer position that 250 is correct for every supported volume.size.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T09:04:07Z

The capacity test is exactly what I was asking for, and the reasoning in its header answers the part I could not have specified: three buckets because the count has to hold whether or not the default collection took slots, and asserting a write rather than readiness, since slot exhaustion leaves every COSI object green.

But the diff no longer carries the fix itself:

$ gh pr diff 4251 | grep -c volumeSizeLimitMB
0

$ git show origin/main:packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml | grep -n volumeSizeLimitMB
38:    volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000

Only hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/buckets-capacity.yaml and hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/chainsaw-test.yaml are in it now. packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml and packages/system/seaweedfs/tests/volume_slot_ceiling_test.yaml are gone from the diff, and neither landed on main separately — the last commit touching that package is still the July release. The title and description still describe the 1000 to 250 change, so the PR currently promises something it does not do.

From the outside it looks like the branch was rebuilt and only the newest commit survived: one commit, +147/-0, new head 85b7e4453. Worth checking your reflog before re-pushing, since the values change carried that long rationale comment with the slot arithmetic in it.

On the two findings from my earlier round: with the constant gone from the diff, both are moot as written rather than addressed. The first one, that nothing exercised the capacity, is answered by this test once the constant comes back — and at that point it becomes the strongest part of the change, because the test is red at 1000 and green at 250 rather than pinning a rendered flag. The second, the missing override for installs where the comment says 250 is wrong, still stands against whatever values.yaml returns.

Happy to re-review as soon as the diff is whole again.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-15T09:11:04Z

The missing constant is deliberate, not a lost commit. This head is a control: the capacity test with the values still at 1000, so the run against it shows the test red before the fix exists. Without that run, "the test catches an exhausted ceiling" would be my word for it rather than something you can open in the checks.

The values commit is intact locally, reflog clean, and it lands with the next push along with the rest. I should have said so when I pushed this, instead of leaving you to diagnose a branch that looks half-rebuilt. That cost you a round of reading for nothing.

Sizing also moved since your round, and it moved to your proposal: 500 with copy_2: 3 rather than 250 alone. I measured the equivalence on a real 4.31 master with two volume servers rather than deriving it, and the two reach the same ceiling while the pair costs half the volume files. Numbers come with the push.

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IvanHunters

Verdict

NOT LGTM

Both new app-chart knobs reach the master unbounded, and one is wired to one replication arm.

Round 1 is closed, and the new work is the reason: the capacity case at hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/chainsaw-test.yaml:155 creates three buckets and requires a write into each, which is the property I asked for rather than the constant; master.volumeSizeLimitMB now reaches the master command through the app chart, verified by rendering the HelmRelease and then the subchart; and the body's master.config claim is gone, replaced by the env var the diff actually sets. What blocks below came in with that second fix, not before it.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/extra/seaweedfs/templates/seaweedfs.yaml:237, the new master knobs are unbounded and two schema-valid values take the instance down
[MAJOR] packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.yaml:96, volumeGrowthCount does nothing unless replicationFactor is 2

[MINOR] the release-note block drops the upgrade window the description names

Existing instances all run at 1000, so on upgrade any volume at or above 500 MB leaves the writable set and the first assign against that collection fails before the grow replaces it. The description says so; the release note does not.

Caveats

The new chainsaw case was not executed, so whether it is red at the old sizing is unverified; worth a cozystack-pr-test pass. select-e2e.sh escalates this file list to the full suite, so it does run in CI.
Upgrade analysed from pinned 4.31 source, not replayed. A partial grow is accepted (volume_growth.go:122), so one free 500 MB slot per server recovers a collection and minFreeSpacePercent: 5 keeps the disk above that. I found no permanently-unwritable band, but I did not run it.
Checked sound: make generate regenerates byte-identical, six mutations over the two new unit suites all reddened, the HR deep-merge keeps COPY_1/3/OTHER, and six render-diff corners show no regression against the merge base.

Recommended follow-ups

package_reconciler.go:207 skips a component with no install: section before the spec.components[].values merge at line 301, so a Package override for seaweedfs-system is dropped with no log or status.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T10:48:43Z

        defaultReplicaPlacement: "{{ sub .Values.replicationFactor 1 }}00"
        {{- end }}
        replicas: {{ .Values.master.replicas }}
+        volumeSizeLimitMB: {{ .Values.master.volumeSizeLimitMB }}


[MAJOR] the new master knobs are unbounded and two schema-valid values take the instance down

master.volumeSizeLimitMB and master.volumeGrowthCount are "type": "integer" with a default and nothing else (values.schema.json:240,245), and the same text generates into the seaweedfs-rd openAPISchema, so the dashboard and kubectl edit take any integer:

$ helm template seaweedfs packages/extra/seaweedfs -n tenant-root --set ... \ --set master.volumeSizeLimitMB=40000 --set master.volumeGrowthCount=0 152: volumeSizeLimitMB: 40000 156: WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2: "0"

Above 30000 the master refuses to start, so all three replicas CrashLoop and S3, filer and COSI go with them (seaweedfs 4.31 weed/command/master.go:163: glog.Fatalf("volumeSizeLimitMB should be smaller than 30000")). At 0 it starts, every pod stays Ready, and weed/topology/volume_layout.go:362 reads uint64(v.Size) >= vl.volumeSizeLimit, true for every volume, so nothing is ever writable: the silent PUT timeout this PR removes, one keystroke away. volumeGrowthCount: 0 is the same shape at weed/topology/volume_growth.go:118, where a zero target count grows nothing and returns no error.

Line 8 of this file already fail-guards replicationFactor; the two new fields want an entry in that same preflight block, since cozyvalues-gen has no minimum/maximum annotation (checked --help) and a hand-edited schema is overwritten by make generate. A unittest asserting the render fails at 0 and at 30001 pins it.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T10:48:43Z

 ## @field {Resources} [resources] - Explicit CPU and memory configuration. When omitted, the preset defined in `resourcesPreset` is applied.
 ## @field {ResourcesPreset} [resourcesPreset] - Default sizing preset used when `resources` is omitted.
+## @field {int} [volumeSizeLimitMB] - Size in MB at which a volume stops taking writes. Sets the bucket ceiling jointly with `volumeGrowthCount`: a volume server serves `volume.size / (volumeSizeLimitMB * volumeGrowthCount)` buckets, so raising either one lowers that ceiling.
+## @field {int} [volumeGrowthCount] - Volumes the master adds to a bucket each time it grows one. Lowers the bucket ceiling when raised, exactly as `volumeSizeLimitMB` does, but without changing how many volume files a given amount of stored data occupies.


[MAJOR] volumeGrowthCount does nothing unless replicationFactor is 2

The field writes only WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2, and the master picks the growth count from the copy count of the write's replica placement (weed/topology/volume_growth.go:103-115; weed/storage/super_block/replica_placement.go:80 makes copies = 1 + the three digits). The placement on an S3 write is the filer's (weed/server/filer_server_handlers_write.go:289), which this chart derives from replicationFactor:

$ helm template ... --set replicationFactor=1 150: defaultReplicaPlacement: "000" 156: WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2: "3"

000 is one copy, so the master reads COPY_1 (7, the subchart default) and the operator's value is ignored. replicationFactor: 1 clears this chart's own >= 1 guard at line 8 of templates/seaweedfs.yaml, so it is a supported setting, while this field description, the README row and the packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml:38 arithmetic all state a ceiling formula that does not hold there. Either write the count into the arm replicationFactor selects, or name the replication it applies to in the description.

What would change my mind: replicationFactor: 1 turning out to be unsupported.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-15T13:51:35Z

IvanHunters Took your copy_2 proposal: 500 with copy_2: 3. My "measured cost against an unmeasured one" line was wrong. 84k volume files is computable, not measured, and nobody has run a server with that many, so both sides carried an unmeasured consequence. What separates them is that the file count scales with stored data and lands on large instances that never had a ceiling problem, while write spread is flat.

Measured the equivalence on the real 4.31 binary rather than deriving it, two volume servers with -max 0 on fixed-size images, one assign per fresh collection until it refused: 50/3 and 25/6 both serve seven collections, 100/6 serves two. Table is in the body.

On the capacity case, run 34948279363 is the control, so the caveat about it being unexecuted is settled. The suite ran with the test and without the constant, and the JUnit has bucket green at 18s beside bucket-1-capacity red on the same tree. It failed on the write to the second bucket after the first succeeded, which is the nine slots split six for cozy-backups and three for one tenant bucket. Three BucketAccess assertions went in after that run, since the write step reads the Secret access produces and could otherwise fail on a missing Secret rather than on capacity. They only add waiting ahead of that step and waiting does not create slots, so the version carrying them reaches the same write and fails the same way, later; the version difference between the red run and the green one can only help a run pass, never make it fail.

That run also settles something the PR could not assert on its own, by elimination rather than measurement, so the reasoning is worth checking rather than believing. cozy-backups takes six of the nine slots and the bucket case takes the remaining three, so any accounting where the unnamed default collection also holds slots leaves that case with none, and it passed. All nine were held when the capacity case started. cap1 still wrote, and the only slots available to it were those freed when the bucket case's bucket was deleted. So a deleted collection does return its slots, which is what the margin on the new sizing rests on.

Your growth-count finding is closed by removing the field rather than by arguing with it. You are right that it only bites at replicationFactor: 2: the master picks which of its four growth counts to apply from the replication the filer requests, the filer takes that from replicationFactor, and a field wired to COPY_2 would do nothing at 1 or 3 copies while still looking like a setting. So there is no volumeGrowthCount on the app chart. Only master.volumeSizeLimitMB is exposed, which has no such dependency: it divides disk capacity into slots whatever the replication is, so lowering it raises the ceiling at every supported factor.

The unbounded finding is closed by bounding what is left, and at both ends rather than only the zero you named. Past 30000 the master does not start at all, exiting on volumeSizeLimitMB should be smaller than 30000, which is VolumeSizeLimitGB in the standard build the image carries. The render now refuses anything outside 1 to 30000, pinned by three cases: the largest accepted value, and the first rejected one at each end.

The release note carries the upgrade window now. You were right that it gets read apart from the description, and it was the description that had it.

One question left that is yours rather than mine: should the platform growth count become replication-dependent? Today it is not. At 1 and 3 copies the master reads COPY_1 and COPY_3, so the 3 this PR sets applies only at the shipped replicationFactor: 2. The size-limit half of that question this PR answers by exposing it.

Dropped the e2e claim instead of softening it, I did not observe that outcome.

Your replicationFactor follow-up reproduces: the template sets master.defaultReplicaPlacement, the master reads master.defaultReplication, so it never gets there and every instance runs 001. It already has a home as #4241, so I am leaving it there rather than folding it in here.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-15T13:52:18Z

Not taking this one. allInOne.enabled is false and nothing here turns it on, so asserting that command would pin a template this platform never renders.

The three that do render are each asserted on their own: master size limit, master growth count, volume server -max 0. Each fails alone when its constant moves.

IvanHunters

Verdict

NOT LGTM

The arithmetic checks out against the pinned upstream, and the new e2e case is red on the old sizing and green here. What blocks is the transition itself: an instance writing fine today can come out of the flip with no slot to grow into, and no test walks that path.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml:83, the flip can leave an existing collection with no slot to grow into
[MINOR] packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.yaml:95, the description does not name the range that fails the render
[MINOR] hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/chainsaw-test.yaml:291, a late BucketInfo Secret reports as a credentials error
[MINOR] packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml:88, only the replication arm the default uses is tuned

Still open from my earlier rounds

Five of the six I raised earlier are closed at this head, and the work shows. The capacity case writes into three buckets now instead of pinning a constant, the size limit reaches the master through a schema-declared field on the app chart, the render guard refuses both ends of the range the master itself refuses, and the release note names the upgrade window.

One carries forward: the growth-count arm above, raised 15 Sep. The half of it that blocked is gone.

Caveats

Upgrade behaviour is read off the pinned upstream source, not run: no live instance went from 1000 to 500. Worth a cozystack-pr-test pass before merge.
Two matrix corners (filer.resourcesPreset=c1.4xlarge, u1.2xlarge) came back plugin "unittest" exited with error. A base-vs-head render of the first succeeds on both sides, so I read those as probe artifacts rather than defects.
The six red chainsaw cases on this head are all unrelated: four on strategy Kind "<X>" is not supported by this controller, postgres-2-backup-roundtrip on the CNPG webhook refusing barmanObjectStore beside a WAL plugin, and kafka on verify-pvc-reclaim-on-delete hitting context deadline exceeded. bucket-1-capacity passed in 82.51s.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T19:02:20Z

+    # Deriving the limit from volume.size was rejected: pools and zones each
+    # carry their own PVC size while this setting is master-wide, so it would
+    # have to track the smallest pool.
+    volumeSizeLimitMB: 500


[MAJOR] the flip can leave an existing collection with no slot to grow into

The release note says the lower limit "makes that grow likelier to succeed rather than less". That holds while a volume server has at least one new limit of free space and stops holding just under it. Read at the 4.31 the chart pins:

weed/storage/store.go:853 unclaimedSpaces := int64(diskStatus.Free) weed/storage/store.go:855 unusedSpace = diskLocation.UnUsedSpace(volumeSizeLimit) weed/storage/store.go:858 volCount := diskLocation.VolumesLen() weed/storage/store.go:866 maxVolumeCount += int32(uint64(unclaimedSpaces) / volumeSizeLimit) weed/storage/disk_location.go:532 unUsedSpaceVolume := int64(volumeSizeLimit) - int64(datSize+idxSize) weed/storage/disk_location.go:534 if unUsedSpaceVolume >= 0 {

Ten volumes at 980 MB on the shipped 10Gi PVC: at 1000 they are all writable with headroom left. At 500 every one is oversized, so UnUsedSpace contributes nothing for them, the 440 MB still free divides to zero extra slots, and maxVolumeCount comes out equal to volCount. There is no slot for the grow the change now demands of every collection at once, so writes stop at the moment of upgrade where a minute earlier they did not. Nothing detects the band or warns about it.

What would change my mind: a run showing the grow landing on a server inside that band, or a release-note line naming "at least one volumeSizeLimitMB free per volume server" as the precondition. A bucket-suite case that writes at 1000, patches the value down and requires the next write to land would pin it the way redis-tls-flip-rejected pins its own in-place change. Fresh install cannot see it: the red baseline (run 34948279363) and this head both install from scratch.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T19:02:20Z

 ## @field {int} [replicas] - Number of master replicas.
 ## @field {Resources} [resources] - Explicit CPU and memory configuration. When omitted, the preset defined in `resourcesPreset` is applied.
 ## @field {ResourcesPreset} [resourcesPreset] - Default sizing preset used when `resources` is omitted.
+## @field {int} [volumeSizeLimitMB] - Size in MB at which a volume stops taking writes, and the divisor that sets how many buckets a volume server can serve. Lower it to fit more buckets on the same disk, at the cost of more volume files for the same stored data; on a large volume it is worth raising instead.


[MINOR] the description does not name the range that fails the render

cozyvalues-gen copies this text into values.schema.json, the README and the cozyrd openAPISchema, and the schema types the field as a bare integer. None of the 35 generated schemas carries a bound, so the template guard is the right home for it:

$ grep -rl '"minimum"\|"maximum"' --include='values.schema.json' packages/ | grep -v '/charts/' $ find packages -name values.schema.json -not -path '*/charts/*' | wc -l 35

(Four vendored upstream schemas under charts/ do carry bounds, which is why the grep excludes them.) That leaves this sentence as the only place an operator can learn it before their HelmRelease refuses to render. Add "between 1 and 30000" to it.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T19:02:20Z

+          echo "capacity probe" > "$workdir/probe.txt"
+
+          for name in cap1 cap2 cap3; do
+            kubectl -n "$NAMESPACE" get secret "bucket-${name}-admin" \


[MINOR] a late BucketInfo Secret reports as a credentials error

The kubectl get secret | base64 -d pipeline runs without pipefail, so a failed read leaves an empty file, jq -r exits 0 on it, and the first thing that complains is mc alias set on an empty key. That is the credentials-shaped misreading this case exists to rule out. Guard with [ -s "$workdir/${name}.json" ] after the read, or assert the Secret alongside the BucketAccess.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-15T19:02:20Z

+    # four COPY_* growth counts at their upstream defaults; Helm merges this
+    # key over that map and leaves the rest standing.
+    extraEnvironmentVars:
+      WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2: "3"


[MINOR] only the replication arm the default uses is tuned

The knob I flagged last round is gone from the app chart, which closes the half that mattered: no user-facing field silently does nothing any more. What is left sits on this line. The master takes the growth count from the copy count of the write's placement, and the chart derives that placement from replicationFactor:

$ helm template sw packages/extra/seaweedfs --namespace tenant-test --set-json '_cluster={}' \ --set _namespace.host=cozy-stub --set _namespace.ingress=cozy-stub --set replicationFactor=1 \ | grep -E 'defaultReplicaPlacement|volumeSizeLimitMB' defaultReplicaPlacement: "000" volumeSizeLimitMB: 500 defaultReplicaPlacement: "000"

GetCopyCount() is DiffDataCenterCount + DiffRackCount + SameRackCount + 1 (weed/storage/super_block/replica_placement.go:79-81 at the pinned 4.31), so "000" is one copy and findVolumeCount reads Copy1Count (weed/topology/volume_growth.go:106). This line sets COPY_2 only, so COPY_1 stays at the vendored 7 and a grow at replicationFactor: 1 takes 7 x 500 MB where the budget written above it assumes 3 x 500 MB.

Nothing breaks, and that is why this is not a blocker: 3500 MB per collection still beats the 7000 MB the same tenant got before this change. What does not survive is the number in the release note. "From two to seven on a default 10Gi PVC" is the arithmetic at replicationFactor: 2; at 1, which the template accepts and the schema advertises, it is closer to two. Either tune the arm the same way or say which factor the figure assumes.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-16T00:28:19Z

IvanHunters It reproduces, and the shipped default was on the wrong side of it.

The flip first. Rig: weed 4.31, one master, two volume servers with -max 0 on fixed-size images, -defaultReplication=001, -minFreeSpacePercent as the chart sets it. Fill a collection into the band, restart the master at the new limit, probe that same collection.

disk	limit	5% reserve	free at probe	before	after
512 MiB	100 -> 50	25.6 MiB	30.2 (5.89%)	write lands	`No writable volumes and no free volumes left`
512 MiB	100 -> 50	25.6 MiB	110.2 (21.5%)	write lands	write lands
512 MiB	50 -> 25	25.6 MiB	28.1 (5.49%)	write lands	write lands

Row one is your band, and the reserve never fired there. Row two is the control that makes row one mean anything: same restart, more space, max goes 5 to 7 and the grow lands on a new volume, so the red is about space and not about restarting the master. Row three is the other regime, where the reserve does cover a slot, squeezed as low as the reserve allows and still fine.

Which regime the shipped default sits in comes down to one number I had been taking from the PVC's nominal size. All is fs.Blocks * fs.Bsize, so it is the filesystem and not the claim. Made one:

# truncate -s 10737418240 disk.img
# mkfs.ext4 -q -F disk.img && mount -o loop disk.img /mnt
# stat -f -c '%s %b %a' /mnt
4096 2554693 2419519

9979.3 MiB, with 260 MiB gone to metadata. Five percent of that is 499.0 MiB against a 500 MiB slot. Open, by a megabyte. The band is only about that wide on a 10Gi volume, but the sign was wrong, and what put it on the safe side was a coincidence between two numbers living in different files.

So this version lowers the limit to 400 rather than 500. Stranding needs Free < L and writing needs Free >= 0.05 * All, so the window is empty when 0.05 * All >= L. At 400 that reads All >= 8000 MiB, which a 10Gi PVC clears by 99 MiB and clears under every mkfs variant I measured. The ceiling goes up rather than down with it, twenty-three to twenty-four slots against nineteen, eight collections against seven. The cost is descriptors: roughly 52k on a 10 TiB server against 42k, still inside a 65536 nofile limit but with less room than before.

Going lower cuts both ways, so to be plain about which. The band of volumes that go oversized on the flip is [L, 1000), and at 400 that is wider than at 500, so more of them leave the writable set. The space one replacement slot needs is L, and the band where the reserve cannot cover it is [0.05 * All, L); both of those shrink at 400. Two of the three favour the lower number and one does not.

The mismatch underneath is structural, a percentage reserve against an absolute slot, so no fixed limit settles it for every PVC size. At the floor of the reserve on a 10Gi volume, 400 leaves one slot and 500 leaves floor(499/500) = 0, so on that axis the two are not close: one bucket survives the upgrade against none.

One more thing I got wrong on the way and had to measure. A grow claims a batch of three volumes and takes what it can get, so the precondition is per bucket rather than per server: two oversized collections with two free slots between them, and the first to write took both, leaving the second refused afterwards with the disk still reporting a quarter of itself free. The budget is 1200 MB per affected bucket on every volume server at the shipped replicationFactor: 2, or 2800 at 1 where the untuned COPY_1 batch of seven applies, and no volume size exempts an instance from it. The release note and a runbook carry the check and the two ways back out, free space or master.volumeSizeLimitMB set to 1000 on the SeaweedFS resource.

It is also not permanent. Deleting a neighbouring collection took freeSlots from 0 to 7 and the next write landed. Recovery is bought with bytes rather than slots though: freeSlots is floor((Free - UnUsedSpace) / L) and the volCount term cancels, so an empty bucket frees nothing, and vacuum reclaims only what a client already deleted.

I skipped the case you sketched, because of where the value lives. master.volumeSizeLimitMB renders inline into the seaweedfs-system release from the app chart, and in tenant-root that chain has no per-instance values path: the tenant HelmRelease carries only valuesFrom: cozystack-values, a Secret every tenant release reads. Patching either release races its parent's reconcile, so what is left is suspending reconciliation on a platform release mid-suite and resuming it in a catch — a failure mode worse than the one under test. An unfilled instance also passes the flip trivially, which is row three, so the cheap version of the case pins something already green. If there is a supported way to move this value on a live instance that I missed, name it and the case becomes buildable.

Minors are in. For the BucketInfo read I followed hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/backup-access-preflight.sh and added an emptiness check on the three values, since a Secret that exists with an unpopulated key also exits zero. Drove the four states under sh with stubs, missing, empty, bad base64 and good: before the change the missing case exited 0 and ran mc alias set with empty credentials. The description names the 1..30000 bound. The collection figure now says which replicationFactor it assumes.

91-93 carry the same pipeline but predate this branch, so I left them.

IvanHunters

Verdict

NOT LGTM

The number this PR settles on is 400 because five percent of a 10Gi filesystem is 499 MiB, which covers one 400 MB slot. Nothing holds volume.size at 10Gi, and a smaller one renders without a word.

Findings

[MAJOR] packages/extra/seaweedfs/templates/seaweedfs.yaml:25, the new bound checks the limit against a constant, not against the disk it has to fit
[MINOR] hack/e2e-chainsaw/bucket/chainsaw-test.yaml:152, the transition still has no case, and here is the route you asked for
[MINOR] docs/operations/seaweedfs-volume-size-limit-upgrade.md:61, Remedy 2 does not restore what the instance had
[MINOR] docs/operations/seaweedfs-volume-size-limit-upgrade.md:17, the check cannot see the one cost that does scale with size

From my earlier rounds

The stranding point from my last round is closed, and closed the hard way: you reproduced it, found the shipped 500 was on the wrong side of the reserve, and moved to 400 for that reason. The runbook and the release note carry the check and both ways out. What is left of it is the finding above, which is the same mechanism on filesystems below 8000 MiB.
The point about only the replicationFactor: 2 arm being tuned is answered rather than fixed. COPY_1 and COPY_3 sit at the vendored defaults still, but the runbook states the budget each implies: 2800 MB per bucket at 1 copy, 1200 MB at 3. Good enough for a finding that size.
The BucketInfo read, the 1..30000 bound in the description and the unbounded master knobs are all closed. I re-ran the unit suites and mutated the pinned constants: helm unittest reddens on each.

Caveats

The red E2E (in-tree) check on this head (job 104619648173, step Run E2E tests) is not about this change: 49 passed, 7 failed, none of the seven in a bucket or seaweedfs suite. Four fail on strategy Kind "<X>" is not supported by this controller, one on a CNPG webhook rejecting barmanObjectStore beside a WAL plugin, and the last two are the opensearch mount-plan roll and the kafka verify-pvc-reclaim-on-delete delete. bucket and bucket-1-capacity both passed, and bucket-1-capacity was red at the old constants in job 104316605625, so it is not vacuous.
bucket-1-capacity holds three of the eight collections the change buys, and it ran at 03:26 in a run that ended at 03:27:58. Its interaction with the later suites that each provision a bucket is untested. Move it earlier in discovery order and three collections are held for the rest of the run.
Checked and sound: the 1..30000 bound matches weed/command/master.go:163 at the pinned 4.31 (>, so 30000 is admissible); the COPY_* deep-merge keeps the three siblings; seaweedfs-system carries no install: section.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-16T06:18:36Z

+       erased on the next regenerate, and the ApplicationDefinition's
+       openAPISchema is derived from that same file. Moving it there loses it
+       silently. */}}
+{{- if or (lt (int .Values.master.volumeSizeLimitMB) 1) (gt (int .Values.master.volumeSizeLimitMB) 30000) }}


[MAJOR] the new bound checks the limit against a constant, not against the disk it has to fit

The argument that makes 400 safe on upgrade is a relation between two values, not a property of one: a volume already past the limit is charged no headroom, so a replacement slot costs volumeSizeLimitMB of free space, and the reserve only guarantees that space while 0.05 * All >= volumeSizeLimitMB. At 400 that is All >= 8000 MiB, which is exactly what packages/system/seaweedfs/values.yaml:94-97 and the runbook say.

volume.size has no floor, and pools and zones each carry their own (templates/seaweedfs.yaml:284,300,325). Nothing refuses the combination:

$ python3 -c "import json; s=json.load(open('packages/extra/seaweedfs/values.schema.json')); print(sorted(s['properties']['volume']['properties']['size']))" ['anyOf', 'default', 'description', 'pattern', 'x-kubernetes-int-or-string'] $ helm template sw packages/extra/seaweedfs --namespace tenant-x --set-json "_cluster={}" --set _namespace.host=x --set _namespace.ingress=x --set volume.size=2Gi | grep -nE 'volumeSizeLimitMB|size: "2Gi"' 152: volumeSizeLimitMB: 400 177: size: "2Gi"

A 2Gi filesystem is a quarter of the 8000 MiB the condition needs, so such an instance sits in the regime your row one measured red: volumes in [400, 1000) go oversized on the flip, the grow needs 400 MB that the reserve no longer guarantees, and the write fails with the disk reporting room. The upgrade reaches it the same way it reaches everyone else.

This guard is the place for it, and the file already does this sort of check for pools. Refusing, or at least failing the render when the smallest rendered volume size cannot cover a slot, turns a silent upgrade outage into a message at the one moment an operator is looking.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-16T06:18:36Z

+apiVersion: chainsaw.kyverno.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Test
+metadata:
+  name: bucket-1-capacity


[MINOR] the transition still has no case, and here is the route you asked for

Your reason for skipping it is right for the instance you tried: the tenant module's HelmRelease carries valuesFrom: cozystack-values and no spec.values (packages/apps/tenant/templates/seaweedfs.yaml:60), so moving the value there fights its parent.

The route that does not is the one this PR just opened. master.volumeSizeLimitMB is now in the seaweedfs-rd openAPISchema, so a SeaweedFS created against the API carries it, and an instance the tenant module did not create has no parent to race. The chart pins fullnameOverride: seaweedfs, so it needs its own namespace rather than a second release beside the first. Install at 1000, fill one bucket into the band, patch the CR to 400, assert the write.

Cost is the honest objection: a second instance plus enough written bytes to put a volume in the band is not cheap in that sandbox, and I have not built it. Your call whether it is worth the minutes.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-16T06:18:36Z

+
+The tenant module creates its instance under the fixed name `seaweedfs`; an instance created directly against the API can carry another one.
+
+The instance keeps the bucket ceiling it had, which is what it was running with before. Raise the volume size and remove the override when there is room for it.


[MINOR] Remedy 2 does not restore what the instance had

Setting the limit back to 1000 leaves WEED_MASTER_VOLUME_GROWTH_COPY_2 at 3, which the same upgrade delivers and no field exposes. The batch becomes 3000 MB where it was 6000, so the instance comes back with roughly twice the collections it had, not "the bucket ceiling it had".

The direction is benign. It is the sentence an operator reads to decide whether Remedy 2 is a full rollback.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-16T06:18:37Z

+
+## The check
+
+Run it before upgrading, on every SeaweedFS instance. There is no size that exempts one: a large volume carries more buckets, and the budget scales with them. Checking an instance that turns out to be clear costs a minute; skipping one that is not costs its writes. `$NS` throughout is the namespace the instance runs in, which for an instance the tenant module created is that tenant's own namespace, `tenant-<name>`.


[MINOR] the check cannot see the one cost that does scale with size

"There is no size that exempts one" is true for free space and not for descriptors. The other cost this change names (roughly 52k open descriptors against 21k, meeting a 65536 nofile ceiling near 12.5 TiB per volume server) is the one place where size is the whole risk, and df -m does not show it.

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-16T18:46:58Z

IvanHunters The upgrade no longer lowers the limit on an existing instance that has not set one. A platform migration writes master.volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000 into every SeaweedFS instance that has no valid value, so 400 applies only to new instances. The default variant runs no platform migrations, so there the same patch is a manual step before upgrading. The runbook has it, and the commit carries a BREAKING CHANGE footer scoped to that variant. The 0.05 * All >= L relation stays in the text, narrower than before (below), and now it only matters when an operator changes an existing instance on purpose.

A value that was already set is kept and starts to apply with the upgrade, since the previous chart ignored it. A higher one matters too: every volume below the new limit is charged up to it. On a small 4.31 setup, seven nearly empty volumes had no free slot left after a tenfold raise, and a new bucket was refused while the existing one kept writing. The runbook has a query that lists those instances before the upgrade.

The value goes into the application's HelmRelease, which is how the SeaweedFS resource is stored, so it covers instances created through the API and the one the tenant module renders. Writing into a release the tenant module owns looked like a fight with the parent, so I measured it. The tenant module renders that release without spec.values, and on a kind cluster with the real HelmRelease CRD a patched spec.values survived the parent's helm upgrade on client-side, server-side and forced server-side apply, while the fields the chart renders did change. Where migrations run, the order holds because cozystack-packages, the source of every application chart, is a manifest of the platform release and is applied only after its pre-upgrade hooks. A failed migration stops the upgrade before that source moves.

On the guard: I built one from the literal reading of your title first, refusing any limit that does not fit the smallest rendered data directory, and removed it after measuring what it refused. MaybeAdjustVolumeMax at 4.31 floors the slot count at one. A volume server on a 255 MiB disk with a 1000 MB limit reported Max: 1, took an assign and served back what was written. So no size makes the instance stop working, only one that caps it at a single slot, and since a preflight runs on every reconcile, refusing that would break releases that work today. The field description says it instead: a value close to or above volume.size leaves each volume server a single slot.

The runbook is now the procedure for changing the limit on an existing instance and lives at docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md. The old path from my earlier comments no longer resolves. It keeps MultiZone instances and volume server groups with more servers than replicationFactor at 1000, since the master can place a new volume on any server with room, and it has the way back.

Remedy 2 is fixed. At 1000 the growth count is still three, so a bucket's budget is 3000 MB instead of 6000 and the ceiling is about twice what it was. That is what every existing instance gets now. The size point is split too: no volume size exempts an instance from the free-space check, and the descriptor cost that size does decide is named next to it.

Three things in my last comment were wrong. Recovery does not need freed bytes: deleting a collection gives back a slot for each of its volumes, however little it stored, because the headroom charged to them goes too (measured: free slots went from 4 to 7 per server with 0.2 MiB freed). And a per-bucket budget was not a safe bound. Buckets that need no grow still hold one limit per volume below it, and the master grows on its own any bucket with no writable volume at or below 90 percent of the limit. The check now lists each server's volume files and prints a budget that covers both.

The third: the 0.05 * All >= L window, with the one bucket that survives at 400 against none at 500, only holds on a server whose writable volumes have all passed the limit. Anywhere else the volumes below the limit take their headroom out of Free first, so a grow can be refused with the disk far from full whatever the reserve: on the scaled rig it was refused with 249 MiB free against a 102 MiB reserve and a 40 MB limit. On a server whose volumes have all passed the limit, 400 keeps the relation on the shipped 10Gi and 500 does not, and the other reasons for 400, eight collections against seven and a 1200 MB batch budget against 1500, do not depend on the reserve.

Smaller things: the 1..30000 bound is in the values schema through the generator's @minimum and @maximum (first use in this tree, on the pinned v1.6.0). Helm enforces it. The apps API reads that schema only for defaults, so an out-of-range value gets through there and fails at render. The template also requires the value, because an explicit null is dropped before validation and the shipped image exits on the empty flag. The data-plane chart keeps upstream's 1000 as its fallback, since a platform upgrade can re-render that release before its parent sends a value.

The e2e case for lowering an existing instance is not in this PR. It is #4302, with your route and the bucket-1-capacity ordering question.

IvanHunters

Verdict

NOT LGTM

One SeaweedFS HelmRelease whose spec.values is not an object stops migration 57 before it patches anything. The same missing guard sits in the runbook, where it lets the pre-upgrade check report success while instances go unpinned.

Findings

[CRITICAL] packages/core/platform/images/migrations/migrations/57:71, a non-object spec.values stops the fleet, and the runbook misses it quietly

From my earlier rounds

Twelve of the thirteen items are closed at this head. I re-checked them against the code rather than against the replies: migration 57 and its bats suite close the upgrade-stranding item, and the bound with its regenerated schema and RD, the release note, the replication-factor qualification and the BucketInfo read all hold. Remedy 2 and the size-cost sentence in the doc are fixed.

I am withdrawing the [MAJOR] I filed last round on the missing disk-relative bound. Its premise was that the upgrade lowers the limit on instances that never chose one, and migration 57 prevents that. On a fresh instance a limit above the disk caps the server at one slot rather than breaking it, so a render refusal would stop releases that work today. The field description carries it instead, which is the right place.

The e2e case for lowering an existing instance is deferred to #4302 with the route from last round. Not re-raised here.

Caveats

E2E (in-tree) is still running on 62b2e90c, so the post-change green is unobserved. The red at the old sizing is confirmed in run 34948279363.
Rendered 21 schema corners plus volumeSizeLimitMB at 0, 1, 30000, 30001 and an explicit null: 0 and 30001 refused by the schema, null by required, nothing else failed. Six reversions each reddened the owning suite.
On the default variant an instance that never chose a limit still drops to 400 unless the operator patches first. The release note states it as action-required; noted, not re-litigated.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-16T19:42:14Z

+# no instance, and a failed list aborts under set -e rather than reading as one.
+plan=$(kubectl get helmreleases.helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io --all-namespaces -l "$selector" -o json \
+  | jq -r '.items[]
+      | .spec.values.master as $m


[CRITICAL] a non-object spec.values stops the fleet, and the runbook misses it quietly

The filter binds .spec.values.master before anything checks the type of .spec.values itself. A scalar master is handled, by select($m == null or ($m | type) == "object"); a scalar or a list at .spec.values is not, and jq raises before that select runs. The CRD admits the shape: values at internal/fluxinstall/manifests/fluxcd.yaml:3108 is x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields: true with no type:, so a kubectl patch puts a string there, and this PR's runbook adds a direct-write instruction on exactly these releases. Such a release is already not reconciling, so skipping it costs it nothing. It is the other instances that pay.

In the migration the failure is loud and total. set -euo pipefail carries jq's status out of the assignment, so 57 stops before its first patch and before stamp_cozystack_version 58, run-migrations.sh exits 1 without advancing, and the next upgrade re-runs 57 onto the same object. Nothing in the output names the namespace or the release, so there is nothing to act on:

$ ALPINE=$(sed -n 's/^FROM $alpine:[^ ]*$.*$/\1/p' packages/core/platform/images/migrations/Dockerfile | head -1) $ docker build -q -t mig57 - >/dev/null <<EOF FROM $ALPINE RUN apk add --no-cache jq EOF $ WORK=$(mktemp -d); docker run --rm --network none \ -v "$PWD/packages/core/platform/images/migrations/migrations:/migrations:ro" \ -v "$PWD/hack/testdata/migration-57-seaweedfs-size-limit:/fakebin:ro" \ -v "$WORK:/work" -e PATH=/fakebin:/usr/bin:/bin -e FAKE_CMDLOG=/work/cmdlog \ -e NAMESPACE=cozy-system \ -e FAKE_HRS='tenant-root seaweedfs - tenant-bad seaweedfs "oops" tenant-two seaweedfs -' \ mig57 /migrations/57; echo "rc=$?"; cat "$WORK/cmdlog" jq: error (at <stdin>:1): Cannot index string with string ("master") rc=5 KUBECTL get helmreleases.helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io --all-namespaces -l apps.cozystack.io/application.kind=SeaweedFS,apps.cozystack.io/application.group=apps.cozystack.io -o json

tenant-root is left unpinned and 58 unstamped.

Both jq filters in docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md:17,43 carry the same expression, and there the same input fails open. The pinning loop is the default variant's only protection, and the doc's check on it is to "run the command a second time: it must print the instances line and nothing else". jq dies at the bad object, so every instance after it is neither printed nor pinned, and that criterion is met:

$ cat > fleet.json <<'EOF' {"items":[ {"metadata":{"namespace":"tenant-bad","name":"seaweedfs"},"spec":{"values":"oops"}}, {"metadata":{"namespace":"tenant-unpinned","name":"seaweedfs"},"spec":{}} ]} EOF $ jq -r '"instances \(.items | length)", (.items[] | .spec.values.master as $m | select($m == null or ($m | type) == "object") | $m.volumeSizeLimitMB as $v | select(($v | type) != "number" or $v != ($v | floor) or $v < 1 or $v > 30000) | "\(.metadata.namespace) \(.metadata.name)")' fleet.json \ | while read -r ns name; do if [ "$ns" = instances ]; then echo "instances $name"; continue; fi echo "pinning $ns/$name" done jq: error (at fleet.json:4): Cannot index string with string "master" instances 2 pipeline rc=0

tenant-unpinned is never printed, never pinned, and the operator reads the run as clean and upgrades. The error goes to stderr and the exit status is the loop's, so neither the doc's criterion nor $? catches it.

Migration 19 already carries the shape to copy: $o.spec.values as $v, then if ($v|type) != "object" (.../migrations/19:31). Warn and skip by name in 57, guard both filters in the doc, and say there that a jq error means the listing is incomplete whatever it printed. Test: one more FAKE_HRS row holding a non-object spec.values, asserting rc 0, a warning naming <ns>/<name>, no PATCH for it, and STAMP 58.

What would change my mind: an inventory of writers showing that nothing but the aggregated API can reach spec.values on a labelled SeaweedFS release.

A volume server started with -max 0 derives the slots it has left from the free space on its disk, less the room its unfilled volumes still claim, divided by the master's volume size limit, and each collection claims a batch of those slots on every volume server the replication spans. The number of buckets an instance can hold therefore has a ceiling well below what the free bytes suggest, and crossing it leaves every COSI object reporting ready while the S3 PUT times out. The existing case creates one bucket, which sits inside that ceiling at any sizing, so nothing here told a working ceiling from an exhausted one. This case creates three beside the platform's own backup bucket and requires each to accept an object, which is the only signal the exhaustion produces. Three rather than two because the count has to clear the ceiling whether or not cozy-backups and the unnamed default collection have grown yet, which this suite cannot observe. BucketAccess reconciles separately from the claim it belongs to, and the write step reads the Secret that access produces, so readiness of the release and the claim is not enough to enter it. Without the access assertions the step can fail on a missing Secret, which looks the same in the report as the capacity failure it is here to measure. The catch reads the master's slot accounting as well as its log. A grow failure in the log does not say whether the shipped limit is too coarse for the PVC or an earlier collection in the same run still holds the budget, and the per-server Max against Volumes does. The read runs inside the master, whose image ships curl, so it needs nothing on the host and adds no second fixed port to the reason this suite cannot run in parallel. That reason now covers two cases rather than one, which the shared config says. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>

A volume server started with -max 0 takes a slot count derived from disk rather than a fixed one, replication 001 spends a slot on each of the two servers per logical volume, and a collection claims COPY_2 volumes whenever it grows. So the bucket ceiling is set by the product of the size limit and COPY_2, and moving either number alone moves it. The mechanism is upstream in MaybeAdjustVolumeMax (weed/storage/store.go) and findVolumeCount (weed/topology/volume_growth.go). Do not divide these out of the nominal PVC size, because the count follows the space the filesystem makes available and not the volume's advertised size: the shipped 10Gi volume PVC was seen to give nine slots per server at the upstream 1000 and 19 at 500, which puts 400 at 23 to 24 by the same division, or eight collections against two. The span is the observation's own, since the free space behind 19 at 500 fits more than one filesystem geometry and those divide differently at 400; eight either way, because a collection that cannot get a whole batch of COPY_2 keeps the volumes it did get and writes into them. The division itself is measured: on a 1 GB image the master reports max as the filesystem's available space over the limit in every run, 25 slots and nine collections at the 40 and 3 that scale to this pair. Two is what the platform's own cozy-backups bucket and a single tenant bucket already use. Past that every S3 PUT to a new bucket times out while the disk still reads as nearly empty, and no COSI object reports anything wrong, because the claim and the access are both granted. 400 and 3 make the budget 1200 MB per collection. Splitting the reduction across both numbers rather than taking it out of the size limit alone keeps the cost off the curve that grows: open descriptors track stored bytes divided by the limit, so a 10 TiB server keeps roughly 52k of them at this limit against 21k upstream, where moving the size limit alone would have put it at 105k. A .dat and an .idx stay open per volume; the .vif beside them is written and closed. The ceiling reached is the same either way. Both figures describe the shipped replicationFactor of 2. The master picks its growth count from the replication the filer asks for, so at 1 and 3 copies it reads COPY_1 and COPY_3 instead and this COPY_2 does not apply; lowering the size limit still raises the ceiling there. The size limit was out of an operator's reach: it lived in the data-plane chart, which is pulled by ExternalArtifact from a component that declares no install section, so a Package-level values override for it is dropped before any merge. The app chart now declares master.volumeSizeLimitMB and sends it on every release, and 400 is set there. The data-plane chart keeps upstream's 1000 as its fallback on purpose. A platform upgrade can re-render that release from its artifact before the parent has sent anything new, and a lower fallback would then reach the master first and drop the limit ahead of an operator's own setting. COPY_2 is sent by nothing and lives in the data-plane chart, so it does land in that window, where a grow costs 3000 MB against the 6000 MB it cost before. The app chart also writes maxVolumes into dataDirs on every release, and because dataDirs is a list Helm replaces the data-plane chart's copy wholesale, so the zero that makes the slot count auto-derived at all comes from there. Losing it drops the server to the subchart's fixed seven without failing any render. The field is bounded at both ends, because either end takes an instance down. Zero is not a smaller limit but an off switch: the volume server leaves its slot calculation untouched at zero, keeps reporting no capacity, and nothing is ever grown. Past 30000 the master does not start at all. The bound sits in the values schema rather than in a template guard, so Helm refuses the value before any template runs. The apps API does not: it reads that schema only for defaults, so it accepts a value out of range, and the release then fails to render. An explicit null gets past both bounds, because Helm drops the key before it validates, and would render an empty -volumeSizeLimitMB= that the master exits on at start, measured on the shipped image, so the template requires the value. No bound against the disk goes with it, though the field invites one. A limit at or above the volume's own size does not break an instance: MaybeAdjustVolumeMax floors the slot count at one, measured on 4.31 with a 255 MiB disk against a 1000 MB limit, which reported Max 1 and served a write it then read back. Such a server is capped at a single slot rather than dead, so refusing it at render would be a capacity policy that stops a working release on every reconcile, not only on the upgrade. The field's description carries the relation instead, where the value is chosen. The growth count is deliberately not exposed beside the limit. The master picks which of its four growth counts to apply from the replication the filer requests, and the filer takes that from replicationFactor, so a field wired to COPY_2 would do nothing at 1 or 3 copies while still appearing to be a setting. A knob that is silently inert for two of the three supported values is worse than no knob. Two further prices. A collection absorbs the budget before it needs another grow, so growth requests arrive five times as often as at the upstream pair. A collection also starts with half as many writable volumes, and a volume server takes the writes into each volume one at a time (syncWrite holds that volume's dataFileAccessLock), so a heavily parallel writer spreads over fewer volumes until the collection grows again; that holds for instances kept at 1000 too. And lowering the limit on an instance that already holds data carries the other one: its volumes between the new limit and the old go oversized on the next heartbeat and leave the master's writable set, and each affected collection needs one successful grow before its next write lands. Nothing is lost and the volumes stay readable; the room left inside them for further writes is given up and does not return as capacity. Those grows compete for one pool, and the pool is smaller than it looks. An oversized volume is charged no headroom, while one below the limit is charged all of its unfilled room; a grow then claims a whole COPY_2 batch and takes as much of it as is there, and the volumes it creates are empty and charge their headroom straight back. Measured on a local SeaweedFS 4.31 setup: two oversized collections with two free slots between them, the first to write took both, and the second stayed refused with the disk still reporting a quarter of itself free. Collections that need no grow are not free either, since their volumes below the new limit were created six at a time and each can hold back a whole limit. Also measured there, with the limit and batch scaled down: a server with free space for one batch per collection refused the grow its one affected collection needed, because a second, nearly empty collection held the room, and the same free space without it let the grow through. The minFreeSpacePercent reserve only comes into it on a server whose writable volumes have all passed the limit, where nothing is charged headroom: from 8000 MiB of filesystem upward, a 10Gi PVC measuring 9979, five percent is at least 400 MB, and such a server then refuses a grow only once its disk is down to the reserve. Everywhere else the headroom charge decides, and a refusal can arrive with the disk far from full whatever the reserve. Deleting a collection gives the room back a slot per volume, however little it stored, since the headroom charged to those volumes leaves with them. So, on a variant that runs platform migrations, the upgrade does not change the limit on an existing instance unless its operator already set one, which the previous chart accepted and ignored. Platform migration 57 writes master.volumeSizeLimitMB: 1000 into every existing SeaweedFS instance that has not chosen a limit, and 400 applies only to instances created from here on. It leaves alone only an instance whose master is not an object, which no v1 chart renders, and names that one in its log. The default variant runs no platform migrations, so a cluster there that installed SeaweedFS by hand gets no pin, and the document below gives the same patch to apply before upgrading. A chosen limit is a whole number the new chart accepts; anything else counts as not chosen and is replaced with 1000, which is what the previous chart ran in its place, since it ignored the key and the new chart would refuse to render it. A valid value already set is kept, and since the previous chart ignored it, the upgrade is when it starts to apply; the document below lists the ones that change the limit ahead of it. Raised values are listed as well: existing buckets keep writing, but every volume below the new limit is charged up to it, and on a local SeaweedFS 4.31 setup seven nearly empty volumes left no free slot once the limit went up tenfold, so a new bucket was refused. The value goes into the application's HelmRelease, whose spec.values is the application spec, for an instance created through the API and for one the tenant module renders alike. The tenant module never renders spec.values on that release, and a Helm upgrade leaves a key alone that neither manifest carries: measured with Helm 4.3.0 on client-side, server-side and forced server-side apply, and read in createPatch at the v4.1.1 that helm-controller v1.5.0 runs. Where the migration runs, it is a pre-upgrade hook of the platform release, and the cozystack-packages source every application chart comes from is a manifest of that same release, applied only after its hooks; so no instance meets the new chart unstamped, and a failed migration stops the platform upgrade before that source moves. That holds while the platform source is pinned by digest, as it is out of the box; one that follows a tag, a semver range or a branch lets source-controller move cozystack-packages on its own schedule. Until cozystack-packages moves, each patched release keeps its old chart, which ignores the key, since no v1 release reads it or closes the master object in its schema. An instance kept at 1000 still gains, because at a replication factor of 2 a grow now claims three volumes rather than six, so it has room for roughly twice as many new buckets. Lowering an existing instance is left to its operator, and docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md is the check for it. It lists each server's volume files and adds one limit for every volume below the limit and a batch for every collection with no volume at or below 90 percent of it, since the master grows such a collection on its own schedule without a write; measured the same way, a collection with every volume in that band and no writes got two new volumes per server within one pass. Where each disk type is served by as many volume servers as the replication factor, as the shipped two at a factor of 2 are, each collection's volumes sit on every server of that type, and that bounds the claim from above without assuming how the collections grew. The master places a new volume on any server of the requested disk type with room rather than where its collection already lives, whichever group or pool that server belongs to, and it reads an empty disk type as hdd; under MultiZone it also grows each zone on its own. So the document keeps zoned instances, and any disk type served by more servers than copies, at 1000. BREAKING CHANGE: on the default variant, which runs no platform migrations, set master.volumeSizeLimitMB to 1000 before upgrading on every SeaweedFS instance that has no valid value and whose master is an object, with the step in docs/operations/seaweedfs-lowering-the-volume-size-limit.md. On the variants that run platform migrations, migration 57 does this. If the step is skipped, every such instance drops to 400 on the upgrade: each of its volumes at or above 400 MB leaves the master's writable set, and a bucket whose volumes have all crossed that line takes no writes until it can grow. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-09-16T22:11:46Z

IvanHunters Both halves reproduce, and 57 no longer stops on a non-object spec.values. The type check follows your migration 19 pointer and the test follows your spec, with one change: that release gets pinned, not skipped.

The skip assumes such a release does not reconcile, but it does. helm-controller v1.5.0 drops the unmarshal error in GetValues, so a string or a list becomes nil values and the release renders on chart defaults: 1000 today, 400 after the upgrade. The same merge patch replaces the value with the pin (checked with gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.13.0, which k8s.io/apiserver v0.35.0 uses), and nothing that applies is lost. The Job log names the release and prints the old value. So the test expects a PATCH for your tenant-bad row instead of none.

Two other shapes were silent too. A non-object master is still not patched, since every v1 schema already refuses it, but the log names the release and says to set the limit in the same edit that repairs master, or it comes up at 400. A valuesFrom with entries besides cozystack-values is named and pinned anyway. spec.values is merged over those entries, so the pin wins, except for a targetPath entry, which can win depending on the entries before it.

In the runbook both steps have the same guard and name all three shapes. The count rule is exact now: the API count must equal instances minus the unreadable lines, because the API drops a release it cannot convert (#4304). That rule already caught your fleet, but only through that one mechanism, so I also added a complete N last line to both steps, and the doc says to stop if it is missing. The guard fixes this shape, the marker catches the whole class: jq prints it only after reading the whole list, whatever pipefail is set to. The pinning loop stops at the first failed patch, before that line. The bats file now runs both steps straight from the markdown, found by a marker comment, and checks that they select the same releases as 57. Lowering and the way back patch the HelmRelease now, because a patch through the API writes the whole defaulted spec back into spec.values.

Who writes spec.values on these releases: the apps API, which rewrites the whole release on every update, then 57 and an operator following the runbook. The tenant chart does not render spec.values, and its test pins that. valuesFrom does not write it but is merged underneath; the apps API and the tenant chart both set it to cozystack-values only, and the log now names any other entry. No admission policy in the platform blocks the patch: the flux-shard webhook is CREATE-only with failurePolicy: Ignore, deletion protection is DELETE-only, and the lineage webhook does not match HelmReleases.

Thanks for withdrawing the disk-bound MAJOR.

IvanHunters · 2026-09-17T06:22:59Z

Red CI here is one check, E2E (in-tree). Six chainsaw suites failed and none of them exercise what this branch changes: bucket and bucket-1-capacity both passed.

redis-2-backup-roundtrip, rabbitmq-2-backup-roundtrip, mongodb-2-backup-roundtrip and kafka-3-metadata-roundtrip die the same way. The BackupJob goes terminal:

strategy Kind "Redis" is not supported by this controller (supported: Job, Velero, CNPG, Altinity, MariaDB, FoundationDB, Etcd)

That list is byte-identical to supportedBackupStrategyKinds() at tag v1.6.0, while the same function at this PR's merge-base (b99db147a) already returns Redis, Rabbitmq, MongoDB and Kafka. BackupJobReconciler ships in the backupstrategy-controller binary, and Finalize shows why the lane ran the released one:

drift (non-ref change) in packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/values.yaml -> keeping committed ref

The package is not in this PR's build matrix, and the overlay declined to point it at current-main, so the suites ran v1.6.0 against a tree carrying four strategy drivers added after it. That is #4257, and #4261 is open against the drift itself.

Worth noting backup-controller did get overlay: ... -> current-main in that same step, so this is the strategy binary alone.

postgres-2-backup-roundtrip fails elsewhere, on admission webhook "vcluster.cnpg.io" denied the request: Cannot enable a WAL archiver plugin when barmanObjectStore is configured. Same fingerprint as #4262, where the origin of the message is still open: that string is in neither v1.6.0 nor main.

chainsaw/kafka fails on teardown. Deleting the app times out after five minutes because the pre-delete hook's kubectl falls back to http://localhost:8080 and every call is refused, so helm-controller keeps retrying the uninstall. That is #4276.

Control run: 35112227736 (feat/harbor-management-whitelist) carried packages/system/backupstrategy-controller in its build matrix and got the PR-built image, and there redis, rabbitmq, mongodb, postgres and kafka-3-metadata all passed. Counter-control: 35115665407 (feat/monitoring-tracing-backend) failed with the same message and the same supported-kind list as this run.

Nothing to fix in this branch.

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		The tenant module creates its instance under the fixed name `seaweedfs`; an instance created directly against the API can carry another one.

		The instance keeps the bucket ceiling it had, which is what it was running with before. Raise the volume size and remove the override when there is room for it.


		## The check

		Run it before upgrading, on every SeaweedFS instance. There is no size that exempts one: a large volume carries more buckets, and the budget scales with them. Checking an instance that turns out to be clear costs a minute; skipping one that is not costs its writes. `$NS` throughout is the namespace the instance runs in, which for an instance the tenant module created is that tenant's own namespace, `tenant-<name>`.

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