GlusterFS with CIFS, quotas and LDAP

Question

Has anyone had experience plugging GlusterFS and Openfiler together or something similar?

Here is the motivation:

Disk space on multiple server regrouped using GlusterFS
Centralized access using LDAP/AD and quota management using Openfiler as the GlusterFS client
SMB/CIFS server for easy sharing to multiple users on Mac and Windows

I know I can have Gluster installed on Openfiler (rPath Linux) successfully but Openfiler seems to be very picky on what it can use as a shared drive. Mounting the Gluster volume inside an existing share does not seem to allow quotas with the mounted folder free space.

If this is not possible, is there any alternative to give the same capabilities?

Gluster Storage Platform has CIFS integration. no need for OpenFiler — Javier, Dec 22 '10 at 19:09
Gluster Storage Platform has CIFS integration but doesn't seem to have LDAP nor quotas. I need those features together. Any other recommendations? — lpfavreau, Jan 04 '11 at 16:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '11 at 07:22

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It is possible that you could use ceph as your cluster file system, and export as smb, with ldap (well, I assume you can authenticate to ldap for Samba).

http://ceph.newdream.net/

Of course, that means btrfs (beta) and ceph (is it even beta?).

Have you checked on the Gluster mailing list? http://www.gluster.org/interact/mailinglists/

Ceph should work, assuming it works well enough.

answered Jan 06 '11 at 07:22

Ronald Pottol

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Ceph is not an usable option for the years to come and the effort to setup the a ceph server is incredible. – pfo Jan 06 '11 at 17:44
Thanks for the answer Ronald though I've heard the same thing as pfo: ceph is sadly still too immature for production. – lpfavreau Jan 07 '11 at 02:57

GlusterFS with CIFS, quotas and LDAP

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