Also, this:
> CIFS access using the Mac OS X Finder is not supported, however, you can use the Mac OS X command line to access Gluster volumes using CIFS.
Makes me worry about the samba support for os x. Is this still true?
-Andrew
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:50 AM Andrew Spott <andrew.spott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Time machine over a network seems to require *something* special. I couldn't get it to work over a simple NFS share for example.This document talks about some of the special requirements for the SMB samba share:> The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.
> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.cAh! That is good to know. I was worried that gluster had decided to stop supporting Samba. Does anyone know how to install this on Arch? There doesn't seem to be a package for it, and it doesn't seem to be installed by default.-AndrewOn Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:28 AM Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 11/13/18 11:15 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication
>> 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks.
>>
>> Has anyone done this kind of thing? The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin
>> seems to no longer be maintained
>
> The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.
> https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c
>
>
>> (https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs), and I'm not sure if NFS is
>> supported for time machine backups.
>
> AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup
> uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme.
Correction: afpfs (afpovertcp) file system mounted from an Airport Extreme.
I've been hearing for years that Apple has switched to SMB. My AE is
fairly new but I've never found a way to make it do SMB instead of AFP.
--
Kaleb
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