[Gluster-users] MS Office/Samba/Glusterfs/Centos

[Dan Mons]

Sadly we've had no success with Gluster and Microsoft Office.  Current
failures for us have been:

* Windows client hitting Samba+Gluster (not libgfapi) and MS Word and
Excel - not working
* Mac client hitting Gluster's native NFSv3 wth MS Word and Excel - not working

Microsoft Office (in particular Word and Excel) does all sorts of
strange file locking and temporary file placement/renaming to try and
deal with corporate users who insist on using Office as a multi-user
tool for documents (despite every sysadmin's desperate plea to realise
how silly that is).  The end result is pretty much chaos for any
clustered file system.

We've migrated a fair chunk of our business to Google Apps for
Business (handles multi-user perfectly), but for legacy Microsoft
stuff we have a completely separate NAS that we use where admin and
producer types store their Office documents.

It's worth noting too that Adobe Photoshop on Windows (not the Mac
version) has the same problem when opening JPG files only.  It looks
like Photoshop's JPG library is different to their other file IO
libraries, and doesn't work with GlusterFS.  Moving our Photoshop
users to Mac has solved that problem for us.

-Dan
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Dan Mons
R&D SysAdmin
Unbreaker of broken things
Cutting Edge
http://cuttingedge.com.au


On 23 January 2014 01:10, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/22/2014 08:30 PM, Adrian Valeanu wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have set up glusterfs 3.4.2 over an 10Gig xfs filesystem on two CentOS 6
> servers. The gluster filesystem is shared through Samba on both servers.
> Replication is working like a charm but file locking is not. Is it possible
> to have file locking working in this configuration in an way that Microsoft
> Office 2010
> behaves like as if the files were on the same server? Does somebody have
> such an configuration?
> I tried a lot of the Samba configurations found on the mailing list but none
> showed the expected results.
>
>
> Are you using Samba with libgfapi? I am not sure if I understand your
> expectation on locking through Samba. Some more context would be nice.
>
> -Lala
>
> Thank you
>
>
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