Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-25 Thread Bob R
Blair, Please do follow up with your findings. I've built samba v4.4.3 packages for centos 7, updated the kernel to v4.5.4 and tried a number of different configurations including kernel mounting at /cephfs and sharing /cephfs/dir without using ceph_vfs, and using ceph_vfs and targeting /dir in sm

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-22 Thread Blair Bethwaite
Hi Brett, Don't think so thanks, but we'll shout if we find any breakage/weirdness. Cheers, On 23 July 2016 at 05:42, Brett Niver wrote: > So Blair, > > As far as you know right now, you don't need anything from the CephFS team, > correct? > Thanks, > Brett > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:18 AM

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-22 Thread Brett Niver
So Blair, As far as you know right now, you don't need anything from the CephFS team, correct? Thanks, Brett On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Yan, Zheng wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Blair Bethwaite > wrote: > > Thanks Zheng, > > > > On 22 July 2016 at 12:12, Yan, Zheng wrote: >

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-21 Thread Yan, Zheng
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > Thanks Zheng, > > On 22 July 2016 at 12:12, Yan, Zheng wrote: >> We actively back-port fixes to RHEL 7.x kernel. When RHCS2.0 release, >> the RHEL kernel should contain fixes up to 3.7 upstream kernel. > > You meant 4.7 right? I mean 4.

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-21 Thread Blair Bethwaite
Thanks Zheng, On 22 July 2016 at 12:12, Yan, Zheng wrote: > We actively back-port fixes to RHEL 7.x kernel. When RHCS2.0 release, > the RHEL kernel should contain fixes up to 3.7 upstream kernel. You meant 4.7 right? -- Cheers, ~Blairo ___ ceph-user

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-21 Thread Yan, Zheng
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Ira Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:29:39AM +1100, Blair Bethwaite wrote: >> Ken, Ira, John - >> >> Thanks a lot for the replies. Our initial setup is simply running >> samba atop a cephfs kernel mount, and initial cursory checks seem to >> show the basi

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-21 Thread Blair Bethwaite
Ken, Ira, John - Thanks a lot for the replies. Our initial setup is simply running samba atop a cephfs kernel mount, and initial cursory checks seem to show the basics are working as expected (even clustered with ctdb - what are your concerns here Ira?). Though we've yet to try any of our planned

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-20 Thread Ken Dreyer
The Samba packages in Fedora 22+ do enable the Samba VFS: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1174412 >From what Ira said downthread, this is pretty experimental, so you could run your tests on a Fedora system and see how it goes :) - Ken On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > Hi al

[ceph-users] CephFS Samba VFS RHEL packages

2016-07-19 Thread Blair Bethwaite
Hi all, We've started a CephFS Samba PoC on RHEL but just noticed the Samba Ceph VFS doesn't seem to be included with Samba on RHEL, or we're not looking in the right place. Trying to avoid needing to build Samba from source if possible. Any pointers appreciated. -- Cheers, ~Blairo _