[Gluster-users] Samba performance

[Pascal Suter]

also i think you should be able to get better performance if you use 
vfs_glusterfs [1]. From what I understand it's similar to samba what 
nfs-ganesha does for nfs, it uses the libgfapi directly rather than 
sharing a fuse-mount

[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html

on my test machine i did this: (centos 7)

first we need to install |samba-vfs-glusterfs| and of course the samba 
server which comes as a dependency:

yum install samba-vfs-glusterfs

gluster volume set vol1 server.allow-insecure on

now stop and start the gluster volume, this will auto-create a 
(non-working, how funny is that) configuration in |/etc/samba/smb.conf| 
gluster volume stop vol1

gluster volume start vol1

now edit |/etc/samba/smb.conf| and add |kernel share modes = no| and 
also |guest ok=yes| to the newly created |[gluster-vol1]| section so 
that it finally looks about like this:

[gluster-vol1]
comment = For samba share of volume vol1
vfs objects = glusterfs
glusterfs:volume = vol1
glusterfs:logfile = /var/log/samba/glusterfs-vol1.%M.log
glusterfs:loglevel = 7
path = /
read only = no
guest ok = yes
kernel share modes = no

now restart samba

systemctl restart smb

and now you should be able to mount the samba share

mount.cifs -o guest //gluster1/gluster-vol1 /mnt/cifs

On 05.04.19 13:58, David Spisla wrote:

> I forgot the link. Here it is:
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterdocs/blob/9f2c979b50517b7cb7bf9fbcfccb033bc7bf5082/docs/Administrator%20Guide/Accessing%20Gluster%20from%20Windows.md
>
> Am Fr., 5. Apr. 2019 um 13:57 Uhr schrieb David Spisla 
> <spisla80 at gmail.com <mailto:spisla80 at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hello Anoop,
>
>     it is a known issue that Gluster+Samba has a poor performance
>     especially for small files.
>     May this manual can give you more inspiration how to setup your
>     Gluster and Samba environment.
>
>     Regards
>     David Spisla
>
>     Am Fr., 5. Apr. 2019 um 11:28 Uhr schrieb Anoop C S
>     <anoopcs at cryptolab.net <mailto:anoopcs at cryptolab.net>>:
>
>         On Fri, 2019-04-05 at 09:28 +0200, Benedikt Kaleß wrote:
>         > Hi everyone,
>         >
>         > I'm running gluster version 5.5-1 and I'm dealing with a slow
>         > performance together with samba and start to analyze the issue.
>         >
>         > I want to set the options for samba. But when I try
>         >
>         >     gluster volume set <VOLNAME>  group samba
>         >
>         > I get the following error message:
>         >
>         >     Unable to open file '/var/lib/glusterd/groups/samba'.
>         >
>         > Do you have any hints for me?
>
>         This particular group command is only available from v6.0 (as
>         of now).
>
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656771
>
>         > Thank you in advance
>         >
>         > Benedikt
>         >
>
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