Stumbled upon https://forge.gluster.org/samba-glusterfs/samba-glusterfs-vfs/commits/masterwhen trying to find info on how to make Gluster and Samba play nice as a general purpose file server. I have had severe performance problems in the past with mounting the Gluster volume as a Fuse mount, then exporting the Fuse mount thru Samba. As I found out after setting up the cluster this is somewhat expected when serving out lots of small files. Was hoping VFS would provide better performance when serving out lots and lots of small files. Is anyone using VFS extensions in production? Is it ready for prime time? I could not find a single reference to it on Gluster's main website (maybe I am looking in the wrong place), so not sure of the stability or supported-ness of this. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20140210/4168a7f4/attachment.html>
No, not really: Look at my thread: samba vfs objects glusterfs is it now working? I am just waiting for an answer to fix this. The only way I succeeded to make it work is how you descriped (exporting fuse mount thru samba) EDV Daniel M?ller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 T?bingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de Internet: www.tropenklinik.de "Der Mensch ist die Medizin des Menschen" Von: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] Im Auftrag von Matt Miller Gesendet: Montag, 10. Februar 2014 16:43 An: gluster-users at gluster.org Betreff: [Gluster-users] Gluster, Samba, and VFS Stumbled upon https://forge.gluster.org/samba-glusterfs/samba-glusterfs-vfs/commits/master when trying to find info on how to make Gluster and Samba play nice as a general purpose file server.? I have had severe performance problems in the past with mounting the Gluster volume as a Fuse mount, then exporting the Fuse mount thru Samba.? As I found out after setting up the cluster this is somewhat expected when serving out lots of small files.? Was hoping VFS would provide better performance when serving out lots and lots of small files. Is anyone using VFS extensions in production?? Is it ready for prime time?? I could not find a single reference to it on Gluster's main website (maybe I am looking in the wrong place), so not sure of the stability or supported-ness of this.
On 02/10/2014 09:13 PM, Matt Miller wrote:> Stumbled upon > https://forge.gluster.org/samba-glusterfs/samba-glusterfs-vfs/commits/master > when trying to find info on how to make Gluster and Samba play nice as a > general purpose file server. I have had severe performance problems in > the past with mounting the Gluster volume as a Fuse mount, then > exporting the Fuse mount thru Samba. As I found out after setting up > the cluster this is somewhat expected when serving out lots of small > files. Was hoping VFS would provide better performance when serving out > lots and lots of small files. > > Is anyone using VFS extensions in production? Is it ready for prime > time? I could not find a single reference to it on Gluster's main > website (maybe I am looking in the wrong place), so not sure of the > stability or supported-ness of this. >We do support this VFS extension and actively welcome your feedback in this area. FWIW, Red Hat Storage 2.1 uses this plugin in its offering [1]. -Vijay [1] https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.1/html/Administration_Guide/sect-Administration_Guide-GlusterFS_Client-CIFS.html