[Gluster-users] vfs_gluster for samba ?

[Anoop C S]

On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 08:25 +0200, Laurent Bardi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if it has bee discussed, but i ve spend more than 2 hours on
> goolgle to find answers, and nothing.
> 
> i am on debian stretch and i use gluster from  your native repos.
> 
> gluster version 4.1.4, samba version 4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u3 (the one from
> native debian)
> 
> The gluster vfs is not compiled by default with debian , everytime, i
> had to download the deb src and recompile it(apt-get source samba, then
> debuild -us -uc)
> 
> after that the new samba-vfs-modulesxxx.deb contains the gluster_vfs.so.
> 
> A) it doesnt work anymore (no glusterfs.so after rebuilding packages). I
> ve read the log of the configure script it contains "gluster detected
> api version 4" ?

Further down the line were you able to read the logs to find those lines which compiles
vfs_glusterfs.c source?

> B) in the doc i don t see anymore the use of
> 
>  vfs objects = glusterfs
> glusterfs:volfile_server = <host>
> glusterfs:volume = <volume name>
> glusterfs:logfile = <where to put the logs>
> 
> Is there any change i ve missed ?

Hm.. That's interesting. I will get the documentation fixed to reflect the usage of VFS module for
GlusterFS with Samba.