[Gluster-users] Gluster, Samba, and VFS

[Matt Miller]

Yesterday was my first day on the list, so I had not yet seen that thread.
 Appears to be working though.  Will have to setup some load tests.


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Daniel Müller <mueller at tropenklinik.de>wrote:

> No, not really:
> Look at my thread: samba vfs objects glusterfs is it now working?
> I am just waiting for an answer to fix this.
> The only way I succeeded to make it work is how you descriped (exporting
> fuse mount thru samba)
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> Von: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] Im Auftrag von Matt Miller
> Gesendet: Montag, 10. Februar 2014 16:43
> An: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Betreff: [Gluster-users] Gluster, Samba, and VFS
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> Stumbled upon
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> https://forge.gluster.org/samba-glusterfs/samba-glusterfs-vfs/commits/master
> when trying to find info on how to make Gluster and Samba play nice as a
> general purpose file server.  I have had severe performance problems in the
> past with mounting the Gluster volume as a Fuse mount, then exporting the
> Fuse mount thru Samba.  As I found out after setting up the cluster this is
> somewhat expected when serving out lots of small files.  Was hoping VFS
> would provide better performance when serving out lots and lots of small
> files.
> Is anyone using VFS extensions in production?  Is it ready for prime time?
> I could not find a single reference to it on Gluster's main website (maybe
> I
> am looking in the wrong place), so not sure of the stability or
> supported-ness of this.
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