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Add storage setup and tuning guidance, a backend comparison, and a slow-restore walkthrough. VAST has published Snapshot benchmarks; the other backend pages provide starting recommendations.
Fixes#774. GPU CustomStorage requirements and driver checks are in #785.
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Added storage guidance covering NFS, Amazon EFS, Amazon S3, and node-local NVMe, including configuration considerations and performance checks.
Added a restore-performance walkthrough to help identify slow restore phases, measure storage throughput, and compare results with actual restores.
Added troubleshooting guidance for using restore timings to find next steps.
Updated the operations storage documentation with links to the new guides and replaced detailed slow-restore instructions with a link to the walkthrough.
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/local/README.md:
- Line 48: Update the local storage documentation to clarify that matching
tolerations are needed for both the operator and the source and restore workload
Pods when the selected node has a NoSchedule taint; do not imply that
operator.tolerations applies to the workload Pods.
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/nfs/vast.md:
- Line 16: Update the reproduction guidance in the VAST NFS client section to
specify VAST NFS client 4.0.33 or later for the path using `nosharetransport`,
and link to the client installation instructions. Keep the version requirement
scoped to reproducing the published benchmark; do not apply it to
`spread_reads`.
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/slow-restore.md:
- Around line 90-91: Update the PVC `fio` instructions in the filesystem storage
example so they run in a supported environment with `fio` installed and use the
same PVC, mount options, and restore node as the node agent; do not rely on
`fio` being available on the node or in the node-agent image. Document a
supported runner, such as a debug Pod, and how it shares those settings.
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Walkthrough
Adds storage best practices and backend-specific operations guidance for NFS, EFS, VAST, local NVMe/RAID0, and S3. Adds a guide to diagnose slow restores and updates existing documentation to link to the new guidance.
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Storage operations documentation
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Summary
Storage guide entry points and overview README.md, docs/operations/storage.md, docs/operations/storage/README.md
Adds links to storage and restore guidance. Compares NFS, local NVMe/RAID0, and S3, and links to configuration documentation.
Slow-restore diagnosis and measurement docs/operations/troubleshooting.md, docs/operations/storage.md, docs/operations/storage/README.md, docs/operations/storage/slow-restore.md
Adds steps to identify slow restore phases, inspect storage paths, measure storage performance, and compare repeat restores.
NFS I/O guidance and EFS tuning docs/operations/storage/nfs/README.md, docs/operations/storage/nfs/efs.md
Documents NFS throughput, CRIU image I/O modes, mount inspection, and EFS read-ahead and throughput settings.
VAST NFS configuration and verification docs/operations/storage/nfs/vast.md
Documents VAST mount options, network interface configuration, CRIU image I/O comparisons, and restore checks.
Local NVMe and RAID0 operations docs/operations/storage/local/README.md
Documents local RAID0 placement, data lifetime, array and mount checks, and restore measurements.
The documentation has three narrow operational gaps that can prevent accurate PVC measurement, leave workloads pending on tainted nodes, or prevent reproducing the VAST benchmark configuration.
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- Around line 37-43: Update the “Validation and limits” checklist in the NFS/
EFS guidance to record the amazon-efs-utils version, Linux kernel version,
effective rsize, and effective read_ahead_kb alongside the cold and warm restore
results.
- Line 31: Update the NFS EFS guidance near “Optimizing the NFS read_ahead_kb
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- Line 35: Update the findmnt diagnostic in the slow-restore instructions to run
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- Around line 24-26: Update the local-PVC guidance in the NVMe operations
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24-26: Major · Stability & Availability
Document the supported local-PV topology.
This repeats the unresolved topology finding from the previous review. The chart defaults to creating snapshot-pvc; reusing an existing claim requires storage.pvc.create=false and storage.pvc.name. The checkpoint store also requires the access mode and agent topology to be explicit. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Local volumes require a statically created PV with node affinity. Add the PV/PVC requirements and the relevant operator.* and daemonset.* scheduling values. Separate the restore-Pod rule: workload Pods do not mount checkpoint storage. If the local array is reachable from only one node, explain that the restore target may need to run there so its node agent can read the artifact. (kubernetes.io)
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Review comment at @docs/operations/storage/nvme.md around lines 24 - 26:
Update the local-PVC guidance to document the supported topology: require a
statically created local PV with node affinity and an explicit checkpoint PVC
access mode, and explain how to reuse an existing claim with
storage.pvc.create=false and storage.pvc.name. Specify the relevant operator.*
and daemonset.* scheduling values to place checkpoint users on the storage node.
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/nfs/vast.md:
- Line 62: Update the remoteports entry in the VAST NFS documentation to clarify
that the first-VIP to last-VIP form requires a contiguous address range, and
mention the supported tilde-separated address list or DNS form.
- Around line 21-22: Update the NFSv3 guidance for spread_reads to state that it
distributes I/O across existing connections and requires remoteports to
configure multiple VAST server addresses; without remoteports, it will not
spread reads from one file across multiple addresses.
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/s3.md:
- Line 54: Update the S3 storage guidance around maxInflightMiB to state that
the staging cap and reader memory are separate, and include reader memory in
PageBroker’s overall memory budget rather than sizing
pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit from the per-native-client in-flight window.
- Around line 45-46: Update the S3 reader-tuning guidance to state that
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operators must restart PageBroker after changing maxConnections, targetGbps,
concurrency, or maxInflightMiB; retain the existing link to reader tuning
(../../../agent/pagebroker/MODEL_STREAMER.md).
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/slow-restore.md:
- Line 20: Update the storage diagnostics in the slow-restore guidance to make
NFS client and findmnt checks conditional on filesystem-backed storage. For
storage.type: s3, direct readers to S3 endpoint, reader, and network diagnostics
instead; keep the existing filesystem checks for other storage types.
Review comments at @docs/reference/compatibility.md:
- Around line 28-30: Update the compatibility guidance to require checking the
user-mode library loaded by the workload and PageBroker before both
checkpointing and restoring, on the source and destination nodes; retain the
distinction from the host driver reported by nvidia-smi.
- Line 35: Update the awk command to reconstruct the mapped library path from
field 6 through the remaining fields, rather than printing only $NF. Handle the
trailing “ (deleted)” marker so the output still identifies the libcuda.so path.
---
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/nvme.md:
- Around line 24-26: Update the local-PVC guidance to document the supported
topology: require a statically created local PV with node affinity and an
explicit checkpoint PVC access mode, and explain how to reuse an existing claim
with storage.pvc.create=false and storage.pvc.name. Specify the relevant
operator.* and daemonset.* scheduling values to place checkpoint users on the
storage node. Separately clarify that restore workload Pods do not mount
checkpoint storage; when the array is reachable from only one node, schedule the
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- Around line 64-73: Replace the ambiguous “I/O mode” entry in the settings and
results checklist with separate records for config.criu.imageIoMode,
pageBroker.restoreMode, and whether each restore was cold or warm.
- Around line 12-20: Update the EFS guidance for config.criu.imageIoMode to
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- Around line 31-39: Add an instruction immediately before the read-ahead check
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- Around line 30-31: In the “Select NICs and connections” section, describe
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the following table explicitly scoped to TCP.
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- Around line 48-49: Update the storage terminology in this passage: refer to
“source Pods” instead of “checkpoint Pods” and to the “snapshot volume” instead
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18-18: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
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Fix the MD038 violation in the code span.
Line 18 puts a leading space inside the code span for the (deleted) marker. Rewrite the sentence with (deleted) as the code span and describe the preceding space outside it.
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Clarify that source and restore Pods must be scheduled on that node through
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- Around line 16-20: Update the storage comparison table header from “Multi-node
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from workloads spanning multiple nodes. In the Local NVMe and RAID0 row,
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leave the NFS and Amazon S3 entries unchanged.
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- Around line 14-21: Update the slow-phase table to list the actual
timing-summary keys—pagebroker_stage, pagebroker_mount, pagebroker_commit,
criu_prepare, criu_restore, and cuda_restore—and group those keys explicitly
under the relevant checks. Move application readiness out of the summary-phase
table into a separate post-restore check, since Wake is measured after agent
completion.
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- Line 20: Update the GPU CustomStorage compatibility table entry to remove the
claim that older workload drivers use the native checkpoint path. State that
Snapshot does not automatically fall back to native checkpointing when
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Minor · Document that CRIU mode is fixed at checkpoint capture. · README.md:20-33
docs/operations/storage/nfs/README.md:20-33 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Document that CRIU mode is fixed at checkpoint capture.
restore reads m.CRIUDump.CRIU from the checkpoint manifest. Changing config.criu.imageIoMode does not override the mode for an existing checkpoint. Without this note, the EFS and VAST comparisons can restore the same checkpoint with the same recorded mode and produce invalid direct-versus-writeback results.
Suggested fix
See the [configuration reference](../../../reference/api.md#agent-config-config).
+For a direct-versus-writeback comparison, capture a checkpoint with each+corresponding mode. `config.criu.imageIoMode` is stored in the checkpoint+manifest and does not override the mode when restoring an existing checkpoint.+
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Update the Direct I/O section near the CRIU configuration reference to state
that the I/O mode is recorded at checkpoint capture and changing
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- Around line 13-14: Update the storage README’s validation statement to clarify
that the pages describe NFS, local NVMe/RAID0, and Amazon S3 configurations,
rather than claiming all backends have been validated with Snapshot. Keep the
benchmark link and state that the published results use VAST NFS.
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/nfs/README.md:
- Around line 20-33: Update the Direct I/O section near the CRIU configuration
reference to state that the I/O mode is recorded at checkpoint capture and
changing config.criu.imageIoMode does not change the mode used to restore an
existing checkpoint. Clarify that direct-versus-writeback comparisons require
capturing a separate checkpoint in each mode.
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Minor · Document the independent S3 staging limit. · s3.md:57-59
docs/operations/storage/s3.md:57-59 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Document the independent S3 staging limit.
pageBroker.s3.limits.stagingBytes independently limits S3 staging. A value below the volume cap limits the restore earlier. A value above the volume cap does not enlarge the volume and can fail when the volume fills. The chart validates the setting's supported range, but not its relationship to pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit.
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-Size `pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit` for the staged snapshot. Reader buffers+Size `pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit` for the staged restore. If you set+`pageBroker.s3.limits.stagingBytes`, keep it at or below the rendered volume+cap. The chart does not validate this relationship. If omitted, the chart+derives it from the volume cap, subject to PageBroker's 1 TiB maximum. Reader buffers
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Review comment at @docs/operations/storage/s3.md around lines 57 - 59:
Update the S3 staging guidance near `pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit` to document
that `pageBroker.s3.limits.stagingBytes` independently limits staging, values
below the rendered volume cap can limit restore earlier, and values above it
cannot enlarge the volume and may fail when it fills. State that the chart
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- Around line 115-117: Update the comparison guidance around
`config.criu.imageIoMode` so the fixed-snapshot rule applies only when the
comparison does not change I/O mode. Keep the separate-snapshot instruction for
each I/O-mode value, since restores use the mode saved in each snapshot.
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/s3.md:
- Around line 57-59: Update the S3 staging guidance near
`pageBroker.staging.sizeLimit` to document that
`pageBroker.s3.limits.stagingBytes` independently limits staging, values below
the rendered volume cap can limit restore earlier, and values above it cannot
enlarge the volume and may fail when it fills. State that the chart validates
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Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/local/README.md:
- Line 48: Update the local storage documentation to clarify that matching
tolerations are needed for both the operator and the source and restore workload
Pods when the selected node has a NoSchedule taint; do not imply that
operator.tolerations applies to the workload Pods.
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/nfs/vast.md:
- Line 16: Update the reproduction guidance in the VAST NFS client section to
specify VAST NFS client 4.0.33 or later for the path using `nosharetransport`,
and link to the client installation instructions. Keep the version requirement
scoped to reproducing the published benchmark; do not apply it to
`spread_reads`.
Review comments at @docs/operations/storage/slow-restore.md:
- Around line 90-91: Update the PVC `fio` instructions in the filesystem storage
example so they run in a supported environment with `fio` installed and use the
same PVC, mount options, and restore node as the node agent; do not rely on
`fio` being available on the node or in the node-agent image. Document a
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Re-checked my earlier comments against e0719a2 and all of them are addressed. The backend comparison and validated-vs-starting-values note are on the index, slow-restore owns the diagnosis with a phase table and benchmark baseline, the repeated checklists are consolidated, back-links are consistent, NVMe is scoped to single-node, and the CUDA driver procedure now lives in #785. Relative links and anchors resolve, and the Helm values, restore phase keys and the 5.72 s benchmark figure match the code and the benchmarks page.
Bring in the storage best practices guide from main (#775). Move its pages
into Operate as Tune Storage and into Troubleshooting as Troubleshoot Slow
Restores, and apply its edits to Configure Storage, Troubleshoot Restores
and the README index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sherin <sherin.daher@run.ai>
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Add storage setup and tuning guidance, a backend comparison, and a slow-restore walkthrough. VAST has published Snapshot benchmarks; the other backend pages provide starting recommendations.
Fixes #774. GPU CustomStorage requirements and driver checks are in #785.
Checked links and anchors, reading order, shell/YAML examples, the local-PVC Helm example, license headers, and documentation checks. Full local checks stop at a protoc mismatch (30.2 installed; 3.21.12 required).
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