minio: revert to single-node after measuring the real cost of sharding

The 4-node/8-drive erasure-coded cluster matched HAL's topology faithfully,
but real throughput testing against both showed why that costs more than
it's worth here: every write on the sharded cluster fans out across 4
processes over the internal network with erasure-coding overhead, capping
safe throughput around 1.3-2 MiB/s and breaking outright above ~256
concurrent transfers (IncompleteBody errors, confirmed via a controlled
512x test). The identical copy against a single-node instance sustained
23+ MiB/s at the same concurrency with zero errors — over 10x faster,
verified side-by-side, not assumed.

Trades away erasure-coded redundancy (no single-drive fault tolerance) for
that throughput. Deliberate, and reversible if it turns out to matter later
-- the data itself is migrated over the S3 API either way, so the storage
topology underneath isn't locked in by anything upstream of it.
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2026-09-24 23:07:02 +02:00
parent 6a6dd4a7dc
commit 20df40c949
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@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
"port": 9000,
"protocol": "tcp",
"from": "mesh",
"why": "the S3 endpoint, load-balanced across the 4-node erasure-coded cluster"
"why": "the S3 endpoint"
},
{
"port": 9001,
"protocol": "tcp",
"from": "mesh",
"why": "the admin console, load-balanced across the 4-node erasure-coded cluster"
"why": "the admin console"
}
],
"serves": {
@@ -92,104 +92,28 @@
"path": "/var/lib/minio-store",
"mode": "0700"
},
{
"id": "nginx-conf",
"type": "file",
"path": "/var/lib/minio/nginx.conf",
"mode": "0644",
"content": "user nginx;\nworker_processes auto;\n\nerror_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;\npid /var/run/nginx.pid;\n\nevents {\n worker_connections 4096;\n}\n\nhttp {\n include /etc/nginx/mime.types;\n default_type application/octet-stream;\n\n log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] \"$request\" '\n '$status $body_bytes_sent \"$http_referer\" '\n '\"$http_user_agent\" \"$http_x_forwarded_for\"';\n\n access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;\n sendfile on;\n keepalive_timeout 65;\n\n upstream minio {\n server minio1:9000;\n server minio2:9000;\n server minio3:9000;\n server minio4:9000;\n }\n\n upstream console {\n ip_hash;\n server minio1:9001;\n server minio2:9001;\n server minio3:9001;\n server minio4:9001;\n }\n\n server {\n listen 9000;\n listen [::]:9000;\n server_name localhost;\n\n ignore_invalid_headers off;\n client_max_body_size 0;\n proxy_buffering off;\n\n location / {\n proxy_set_header Host $http_host;\n proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;\n\n proxy_connect_timeout 300;\n proxy_http_version 1.1;\n proxy_set_header Connection \"\";\n chunked_transfer_encoding off;\n\n proxy_pass http://minio;\n }\n }\n\n server {\n listen 9001;\n listen [::]:9001;\n server_name localhost;\n\n ignore_invalid_headers off;\n client_max_body_size 0;\n proxy_buffering off;\n\n location / {\n proxy_set_header Host $http_host;\n proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;\n proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;\n\n real_ip_header X-Real-IP;\n\n proxy_connect_timeout 300;\n proxy_http_version 1.1;\n proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;\n proxy_set_header Connection \"upgrade\";\n\n chunked_transfer_encoding off;\n\n proxy_pass http://console;\n }\n }\n}\n"
},
{
"id": "net",
"type": "network",
"name": "minio-net"
},
{
"id": "minio1",
"type": "container",
"name": "minio1",
"image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372",
"network": "minio-net",
"args": ["server", "--console-address", ":9001", "http://minio{1...4}/data{1...2}"],
"env-file": ["/var/lib/minio/root.env"],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/minio-store/data1-1:/data1",
"/var/lib/minio-store/data1-2:/data2",
"/var/lib/minio-store/unused-volume-stub/minio1:/data",
"/var/lib/minio/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
],
"env": {
"MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
"MINIO_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL": "https://files.novox.be"
}
},
{
"id": "minio2",
"type": "container",
"name": "minio2",
"image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372",
"network": "minio-net",
"args": ["server", "--console-address", ":9001", "http://minio{1...4}/data{1...2}"],
"env-file": ["/var/lib/minio/root.env"],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/minio-store/data2-1:/data1",
"/var/lib/minio-store/data2-2:/data2",
"/var/lib/minio-store/unused-volume-stub/minio2:/data",
"/var/lib/minio/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
],
"env": {
"MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
"MINIO_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL": "https://files.novox.be"
}
},
{
"id": "minio3",
"type": "container",
"name": "minio3",
"image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372",
"network": "minio-net",
"args": ["server", "--console-address", ":9001", "http://minio{1...4}/data{1...2}"],
"env-file": ["/var/lib/minio/root.env"],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/minio-store/data3-1:/data1",
"/var/lib/minio-store/data3-2:/data2",
"/var/lib/minio-store/unused-volume-stub/minio3:/data",
"/var/lib/minio/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
],
"env": {
"MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
"MINIO_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL": "https://files.novox.be"
}
},
{
"id": "minio4",
"type": "container",
"name": "minio4",
"image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372",
"network": "minio-net",
"args": ["server", "--console-address", ":9001", "http://minio{1...4}/data{1...2}"],
"env-file": ["/var/lib/minio/root.env"],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/minio-store/data4-1:/data1",
"/var/lib/minio-store/data4-2:/data2",
"/var/lib/minio-store/unused-volume-stub/minio4:/data",
"/var/lib/minio/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
],
"env": {
"MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
"MINIO_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL": "https://files.novox.be"
}
},
{
"id": "lb",
"id": "server",
"type": "container",
"name": "minio",
"image": "docker.io/library/nginx@sha256:985220252f3863977e468f611ef118ebd01421289dd86ee1ae99cb068c3bce2b",
"image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372",
"network": "minio-net",
"args": ["server", "/data", "--console-address", ":9001"],
"env-file": ["/var/lib/minio/root.env"],
"ports": ["9000", "9001"],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/minio/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro"
]
"/var/lib/minio-store:/data",
"/var/lib/minio/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
],
"env": {
"MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
"MINIO_BROWSER_REDIRECT_URL": "https://files.novox.be"
}
},
{
"id": "runtime",