https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stratis_3.0.0
== Summary ==
Stratis 3.0.0 includes many internal improvements, bug fixes, and
user-visible changes.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:dkeefe|Dennis Keefe]], [[User:mulhern|Anne Mulhern]],
[[User:jbaublitz|John Baublitz]]
* Email: dkeefe(a)redhat.com, amulhern(a)redhat.com, jbaublitz(a)redhat.com
== Detailed Description ==
=== stratisd 3.0.0 ===
stratisd 3.0.0 includes a number of significant internal improvements and a few
bug fixes.
In stratisd 3.0.0 the D-Bus API has undergone a revision and the prior
interfaces are all removed. The `FetchProperties` interfaces that
were supported by all objects have been removed. The values that were
previously obtainable via the `FetchProperties` methods
are now conventional D-Bus properties. The possible values of error codes
returned by the D-Bus methods have been reduced to 0 and 1, with the usual
interpretation.
`stratisd` bug fixes:
* The `--prompt` option was not passed to `stratis-min` in the
`stratis-fstab-setup` script; this prevented the user from entering the
password necessary to unlock an encrypted pool during boot. This is
no longer the case.
* `stratisd` was not immediately updating the devicemapper device stack when
a cache was initialized with the result that the cache was not immediately
put in use. This is no longer the case.
* `stratisd` was not immediately updating the Clevis encryption info associated
with a pool on a command to bind an encrypted pool with Clevis. This problem
has been corrected.
* `stratisd` was sending an incorrect D-Bus signal on a pool name change; this
has been fixed.
* Previously, when stratisd-min, which runs during boot before D-Bus
functionality is available, gave way to stratisd when the D-Bus had
been set up, it was possible for inconsistencies to arise if the
Stratis engine was performing an operation which required invoking a
distinct executable. The executable might be terminated during its
execution, and stratisd-min would take the action appropriate to the
command failure before exiting. Now, systemd is instructed to send a
kill signal only to stratisd-min and not to any of stratisd-min's
child processes when shutting down stratisd-min.
* Previously, if the same device was specified using two different
paths when creating or extending a pool the different paths would be
interpreted as two different devices and an error would be returned
when stratisd attempted to initialize the device a second time. Now,
the different paths are canonicalized eagerly, and converted into a
single canonical representation of the device, stratisd initializes
the device only once, and no error is returned.
* Previously, stratisd did not report all existing object paths in the
result of a D-Bus Introspect() call. This was due to a bug in version
0.9.1 and previous of stratisd's dbus-tree dependency. stratisd now
requires dbus-tree 0.9.2, so all nodes are reported.
Other `stratisd` improvements:
* Previously, stratisd relied entirely on udev information when
deciding whether a storage device was not in use by another
application and could safely be overwritten with Stratis metadata. Now
it performs a supplementary check using libblkid and exits with an
error if libblkid reports that the device is in use.
* Handling of errors returned by internal methods is improved; a chaining
mechanism has been introduced and the error chains can be scrutinized
programatically to identify expected scenarios like rollback failures.
* A set of states indicating that a pool has reduced capability have been
added internally and are published on the D-Bus. A pool's capability is
reduced on an error being returned internally which contains, somewhere in
its chain, the appropriate identifying error variant.
* The code used to roll back failed encryption operations on a list of
pool devices has been refactored and generalized. It is now capable of
returning an error that can be used to identify a restricted pool capability
due to a rollback failure.
* `stratisd` uses sha-256 instead of sha-1 for Clevis-related encryption
operations to conform with Clevis's own usage.
* `stratisd` exits more elegantly and less frequently if it encounters an
error during execution of the distinct tasks that are assigned to the
individual threads that it manages internally.
* In preparation for edition 2021 of the Rust language, `stratisd` source code
has been updated to conform entirely to edition 2018 recommendations.
== Detailed Description ==
=== stratis-cli 3.0.0 ===
Users of the Stratis CLI may observe the following changes:
* It is now possible to set the filesystem logical size when creating a
filesystem.
* It is possible to rebind a pool using a Clevis tang server or with a key
in the kernel keyring.
* Filesystem and pool list output have been extended and improved. The pool
listing includes an `Alerts` column. Currently this column is used to indicate
whether the pool is in a restricted operation mode. A new subcommand,
`stratis pool explain`, which provides a fuller explanation of the codes
displayed in the `Alerts` column has been added. The filesystem listing
now displays a filesystem's logical size.
* With encrypted pools it was previously possible for the display of block
device paths to change format if `stratisd` was restarted after an encrypted
pool had been created. Now the display of the block device paths is consistent
across `stratisd` restarts.
== Feedback ==
== Benefits to Fedora ==
Users of Fedora will now benefit from Stratis 2.3.0 by:
* Having the ability to set the filesystem size at create time
* Changing the passphrase or NBDE server using the rebind option
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Update existing stratis-cli package to specify new release
** Update existing stratisd package to specify new release
* Other developers: N/A
* Release engineering: Self Contained
* Policies guidelines: N/A
* Trademark approval: N/A
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
* Users of the CLI will not be impacted
* Developers that consume stratisd's D-Bus API will need to review the
most recent changes make appropriate adjustments
== How To Test ==
* To test setting filesystem size:
* Create a Stratis pool, either encrypted or not.
* Create a Stratis filesystem on the pool, specifying a filesystem size:
stratis fs create <poolname> new-filesystem --size 256GiB
* Verify that the size was set correctly:
stratis fs list <poolname>
Verify the size of
new-filesystem is 256 GiB by checking the first
item in the size triple in the "Size" column.
* To test rebinding with a key in the kernel keyring:
* Create an encrypted pool, specifying a key in the kernel keyring:
stratis key set old-key
stratis pool create <poolname> --key-desc old-key <blockdevs>
* Add
an additional key to the kernel keyring, entering the value at
the command-line:
stratis key set new-key --capture-key
* Rebind the pool using
the new key:
stratis pool rebind keyring <poolname> new-key
* Verify
that the pool has been rebound to the new keyring by
rebooting your machine:
* Reboot, make sure that stratisd is running.
* Remove the old key from the kernel keyring, using stratis:
stratis key unset old-key
* Verify that the old key is
gone, by listing all the keys:
stratis key list
* Unlock all the pools using the keyring:
stratis pool unlock keyring
* Verify that the rebound pool
is unlocked by listing the pools
and verifying that it appears in the pool listing:
stratis pool list
== User Experience ==
Other than the changes mentioned above the user experience will be the same.
== Dependencies ==
None
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism:
* Contingency deadline: N/A
* Blocks release? No
* Blocks product? No
== Documentation ==
* Developers blog draft is here:
**
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratis-docs/pull/246
* Changelog for stratisd
**
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/pull/2821/files
* Changelog for stratis-cli
**
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratis-cli/pull/775/files
== Release Notes ==
Includes recent version of Stratis
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
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