[Gluster-users] does your samba work with 4.1.x (centos 7.5)

[Diego Remolina]

Yes it works if you use fuse mount

No it does not work well if you use:    vfs objects = glusterfs

The samba comes directly from CentOS repository.

Gluster comes from SIG 3.10.12

# rpm -qa | grep centos-release-gluster
centos-release-gluster310-1.0-1.el7.centos.noarch

# yum info samba
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, verify
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: reflector.westga.edu
* extras: reflector.westga.edu
* updates: reflector.westga.edu
Installed Packages
Name        : samba
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 4.7.1
Release     : 6.el7
Size        : 1.9 M
Repo        : installed
>From repo   : base
Summary     : Server and Client software to interoperate with Windows machines
URL         : http://www.samba.org/
License     : GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+
Description : Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of
programs for Linux and
           : Unix.

# yum info glusterfs-server
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, verify
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: reflector.westga.edu
* extras: reflector.westga.edu
* updates: reflector.westga.edu
Installed Packages
Name        : glusterfs-server
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.10.12
Release     : 1.el7
Size        : 4.3 M
Repo        : installed
>From repo   : centos-gluster310
Summary     : Distributed file-system server
URL         : http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
License     : GPLv2 or LGPLv3+
Description : GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of
scaling to several
           : petabytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over
Infiniband RDMA
           : or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file
           : system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file systems in
           : terms of features and extensibility.  It borrows a powerful concept
           : called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code
in GlusterFS
           : is in user space and easily manageable.
           :
           : This package provides the glusterfs server daemon.


Diego
On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:58 PM Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/9/18 10:19 AM, Diego Remolina wrote:
> > Hmmm yes and no...
>
> Yes and no what?
>
> That samba comes from the CentOS-Base/updates repo.
>
> If you don't use the Storage SIG you will get glusterfs 3.8.4,
> client-side only; also from the CentOS-Base/updates repo.
>
> That samba's rpm (.spec file) says it Requires: GlusterFS > 3.4, but in
> all likelihood it was built with GlusterFS 3.8.4 from the Base/updates repo.
>
> But the original question was about EPEL, and there is no version of
> Samba or GlusterFS in EPEL. Enable the EPEL repo and disable the
> Base/updates repo and try `yumdownloader samba\*` or `yumdownloader
> glusterfs\*`. You won't get anything.
>
> And if we extrapolate to the CentOS Storage SIG, there's still no
> version of Samba there either. It would be nice if there was, but there
> isn't.
>
> >
> > Have had problems with samba 4.7.x from Centos repos and Gluster
> > 3.10.x when using plugin vfs gluster to access shares so I had to use
> > fuse mounts and point samba to fuse mounts.
> >
> > I tried an upgrade to glusterfs 4.1.5 a couple days ago and samba
> > worked with it but still using fuse mounts, not vfs gluster.
> >
> > A while back a combination of samba vfs plugin ans gluster broke the
> > use of Autodesk Revit files stored in gluster. However since I am
> > still running 3.10.12, I am not able to open any bug reports or
> > anything given it is no longer supported. I was hopping to do that
> > with gluster 4.1.5, but had to roll back to 3.10.12.
> >
> > These are my current rpms (one version behind in samba) from Centos:
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep samba
> > samba-client-libs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > samba-common-4.7.1-6.el7.noarch
> > samba-common-libs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > samba-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > samba-vfs-glusterfs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > samba-libs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > samba-common-tools-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> >
> > rpm -qa | grep gluster
> > glusterfs-api-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > glusterfs-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > glusterfs-client-xlators-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > centos-release-gluster310-1.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
> > glusterfs-fuse-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > glusterfs-server-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > samba-vfs-glusterfs-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64
> > glusterfs-libs-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > glusterfs-rdma-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> > libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster-3.9.0-14.el7_5.8.x86_64
> > glusterfs-cli-3.10.12-1.el7.x86_64
> >
> >
> > Diego
> > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:09 AM Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/9/18 8:12 AM, lejeczek wrote:
> >>> hi guys
> >>>
> >>> I presume because 4.1.x has been in EPEL repo it is confirmed and
> >>> validated to work 100% with default samba installation.
> >>
> >> GlusterFS — any version — is _not_ in EPEL.
> >>
> >> However it is in the CentOS Storage SIG.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> But, I'd prefer to here you guys say you ACTUALLY have your samba work
> >>> 100% with 4.1.x. Anybody?
> >>
> >> Nobody has built Samba in the CentOS Storage SIG with GlusterFS support.
> >> Not for a long time anyway. The last time it was built was over four
> >> years ago — for el6.
> >>
> >> It would be great if someone in one of the Gluster, Samba, or CentOS
> >> communities would start building it on a regular basis.
> >>
> >> Any volunteers?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Kaleb
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>
> --
>
> Kaleb
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