Re: State of nfs-ganesha CEPH fsal

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Burkhard Linke
> <Burkhard.Linke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/27/2015 05:42 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Burkhard Linke
>>> <Burkhard.Linke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the nfs-ganesha documentation states:
>>>>
>>>> "... This FSAL links to a modified version of the CEPH library that has
>>>> been
>>>> extended to expose its distributed cluster and replication facilities to
>>>> the
>>>> pNFS operations in the FSAL. ... The CEPH library modifications have not
>>>> been merged into the upstream yet. ...."
>>>>
>>>> (https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/wiki/Fsalsupport#ceph)
>>>>
>>>> Is this still the case with the hammer release?
>>>
>>> The FSAL has been upstream for quite a while, but it's not part of our
>>> regular testing yet and I'm not sure what it gets from the Ganesha
>>> side. I'd encourage you to test it, but be wary — we had a recent
>>> report of some issues we haven't been able to set up to reproduce yet.
>>
>> Can you give some details on that issues? I'm currently looking for a way to
>> provide NFS based access to CephFS to our desktop machines.
>
> Ummm...sadly I can't; we don't appear to have any tracker tickets and
> I'm not sure where the report went to. :( I think it was from
> Haomai...

My fault, I should report this to ticket.

I have forgotten the details about the problem, I submit the infos to IRC :-(

It related to the "ls" output. It will print the wrong user/group
owner as "-1", maybe related to root squash?

> -Greg
>
>>
>> The kernel NFS implementation in Ubuntu had some problems with CephFS in our
>> setup, which I was not able to resolve yet. Ganesha seems to be more
>> promising, since it uses libcephfs directly and does not need a mountpoint
>> of its own.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Burkhard
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Wheat
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