Gluster with/for Samba shares - still ok?

[lejeczek]

Hi guys.
I'm trying to have Gluster to serve Samba its shares - there has been no vfs module with Samba for a while so it's a "regular" fuse-mount - but it's almost unusable.
As soon as I start copying something onto such share, using cifs-mount, Gluster logs:
...

 W [MSGID: 108019] [afr-lk-common.c:257:afr_log_locks_failure] 0-PEOPLE-replicate-0: Unable to do inode lock with lk-owner:e88400b4fb7f0000 on any subvolume while attempting SETATTR on gfid:bec47731-3bcf-4ea6-96ed-554e56d0973d. [Stale file handle]
 W [fuse-bridge.c:1722:fuse_setattr_cbk] 0-glusterfs-fuse: 183: SETATTR() <gfid:bec47731-3bcf-4ea6-96ed-554e56d0973d> => -1 (Stale file handle)
 W [fuse-bridge.c:1052:fuse_entry_cbk] 0-glusterfs-fuse: 364: MKDIR() /gawel/amd64 => -1 (File exists)
 W [fuse-bridge.c:1052:fuse_entry_cbk] 0-glusterfs-fuse: 434: MKDIR() /gawel/amd64 => -1 (File exists)
 W [fuse-bridge.c:1052:fuse_entry_cbk] 0-glusterfs-fuse: 547: MKDIR() /gawel/amd64 => -1 (File exists)
 W [fuse-bridge.c:1052:fuse_entry_cbk] 0-glusterfs-fuse: 615: MKDIR() /gawel/amd64 => -1 (File exists)
 I [MSGID: 101219] [common-utils.c:3088:gf_set_volfile_server_common] 0-gluster: duplicate entry for volfile-server [{errno=17}, {error=File exists}]

I fiddled with mount points - I mount with autofs, eg:

/PEOPLE -fstype=glusterfs,noatime,kernel-writeback-cache=0,fopen-keep-cache=0,use-readdirp=1,capability,acl,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/mount.PEOPLE.log 10.1.1.100,10.1.1.99,10.1.1.101:/PEOPLE

I'm hoping this could work and it's a matter of perhaps way to mount a volume + volume properties - anybody has that figured out?
glusterfs 11.2 on Centos 9 Stream.

many thanks, L.

[lejeczek]

Actually it seems that vfs objects = glusterfs_fuse - when in use - causes issues, oh irony, it is supposed to be good.

[rafikc30]

@lejeczek I'm wondering why glusterfs_fuse as the vfs, why not just vfs objects = glusterfs?

[lejeczek]

No such module - they/Samba retired it some time ago - at least on Centos, perhaps still possible to custom-build it.

[rafikc30]

@lejeczek I'm not sure, we are still using it, a quick search on centos storage sig has the samba gluster vfs package as well, you can check here https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/storage/x86_64/samba-417/Packages/s/

[lejeczek]

Yes SIGs do nice work with all those extra bits - however tweaking system that much out of defaults I cannot do with Samba - but yes, it's there also with samba version which is on par with distro's default.
Perhaps looking into glusterfs_fuse - if any issues might arise there - is worthwhile to @devel here.

[rafikc30]

@lejeczek The recommended way of using SMB protocol with gluster is by enabling vfs objects = glusterfs.