samba - Nov 2021 - Building v4.15 with glusterfs VFS module, still possible?

I've been trying to build v4.15 from source on ubuntu 20.04, since i need
gluster support. According to the documentation (
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html) it
should still be available. But compiling with --enable-glusterfs builds no
glusterfs.so.
I tried modifying source3/modules/wscript_build to hard code glusterfs to
enabled, but compilation fails looking for glusterfs/api/glfs.h . I even
tried downloading the gluster source (v9) and linking that to the
apropriate folder, but then compilation fails with errors about too many
arguments.

So this begs the question, is it possible at all to build the latest
release with gluster support?

Better use the glusterfs_fuse module. I tested all possibilities for
using Glusterfs together with Samba and CTDB, the best result was always
with glusterfs_fuse.


Am 16.11.21 um 13:43 schrieb Jaap van Wingerden via
samba:
> I've been trying to build v4.15 from source on ubuntu 20.04, since i
need
> gluster support. According to the documentation (
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html) it
> should still be available. But compiling with --enable-glusterfs builds no
> glusterfs.so.
> I tried modifying source3/modules/wscript_build to hard code glusterfs to
> enabled, but compilation fails looking for glusterfs/api/glfs.h . I even
> tried downloading the gluster source (v9) and linking that to the
> apropriate folder, but then compilation fails with errors about too many
> arguments.
> 
> So this begs the question, is it possible at all to build the latest
> release with gluster support?
> 
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Jaap van Wingerden via samba
wrote:
>I've been trying to build v4.15 from source on ubuntu 20.04, since i
need
>gluster support. According to the documentation (
>https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html) it
>should still be available. But compiling with --enable-glusterfs builds no
>glusterfs.so.
>I tried modifying source3/modules/wscript_build to hard code glusterfs to
>enabled, but compilation fails looking for glusterfs/api/glfs.h . I even
>tried downloading the gluster source (v9) and linking that to the
>apropriate folder, but then compilation fails with errors about too many
>arguments.
You need to have the glusterfs-dev package (or similar name)
installed on your machine. glusterfs.so builds fine here for
me.

On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 13:43 +0100, Jaap van Wingerden via samba
wrote:
> I've been trying to build v4.15 from source on ubuntu 20.04, since i
> need
> gluster support. According to the documentation (
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html
> ) it
> should still be available. But compiling with --enable-glusterfs
> builds no
> glusterfs.so.
> I tried modifying source3/modules/wscript_build to hard code
> glusterfs to
> enabled, but compilation fails looking for glusterfs/api/glfs.h . I
> even
> tried downloading the gluster source (v9) and linking that to the
> apropriate folder, but then compilation fails with errors about too
> many
> arguments.
As Jeremy mentioned in the other reply, you need to install GlusterFS
development package(glusterfs-dev) to have those headers files present
at standard locations where Samba will look for during compilation.

Regards,
Anoop C S