[Gluster-users] Unable to create new files or folders using samba and vfs_glusterfs

[Anoop C S]

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 15:31 +0000, Matt Waymack wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I’m having an issue on Windows clients accessing shares via smb when
> using vfs_glusterfs.  They are unable to create any file or folders
> at the root of the share and get the error “The file is too large for
> the destination file system.”  When I change from vfs_glusterfs to
> just using a filesystem path to the same location, it works fine
> (except for the performance hit).  All my searches have led to bug
> 1619108, and that seems to be the symptom, but there doesn’t appear
> to be any clear resolution.

You figured out the right bug and following is the upstream Samba bug:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13585

Unfortunately it is only available with v4.8.6 and higher. If required
I can patch it up and provide a build.

> I’m on the latest version of samba available on CentOS 7 (4.8.3) and
> I’m on the latest available glusterfs 4.1 (4.1.6).  Is there
> something simple I’m missing to get this going?
>  
> Thank you!
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