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

Anoop C S anoopcs at autistici.org
Mon Nov 12 04:41:18 UTC 2018 

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 15:03 -0500, Diego Remolina wrote:
> Yes it works if you use fuse mount
> 
> No it does not work well if you use:    vfs objects = glusterfs

Would you mind explaining the issue in detail? Apologies if you have already raised it here before
and could not get to resolution.

Please attach the output of `testparm -s` and any relevant error messages from logs under
/var/log/samba/ when glusterfs vfs module is being used.

> 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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> > > > Gluster-users at gluster.org
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> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Kaleb
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