Hi John, I've finally came around to finish the database client driver for Samba to talk to Ceph via Python librados and implement some changes that do improve performance compared to the one from Samuel I used last year: <https://git.samba.org/?p=slow/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dbwrap_py> I'm doing my testing and benchmarking on a very basic Ceph cluster and I would *love* to run benchmarks against a more beefy cluster and not a single server partitioned into VMs also lacking decent storage... By chance, do you have such a thing accessible and would be able to run a few benchmark? Anyone else interested? :) It's a bit more involved as it also requires a few more VMs used as SMB client and clustered Samba... Cheers! -slow On 3/25/24 18:56, John Mulligan wrote:
Hi John,
On 3/21/24 20:12, John Mulligan wrote:
I'd like to formally let the wider community know of some work I've been involved with for a while now: adding Managed SMB Protocol Support to Ceph. SMB being the well known network file protocol native to Windows systems and supported by MacOS (and Linux). The other key word "managed" meaning integrating with Ceph management tooling - in this particular case cephadm for orchestration and eventually a new MGR module for managing SMB shares. The effort is still in it's very early stages. We have a PR adding initial support for Samba Containers to cephadm [1] and a prototype for an smb MGR module [2]. We plan on using container images based on the samba-container project [3] - a team I am already part of. What we're aiming for is a feature set similar to the current NFS integration in Ceph, but with a focus on bridging non-Linux/Unix clients to CephFS using a protocol built into those systems.
A few major features we have planned include: * Standalone servers (internally defined users/groups) * Active Directory Domain Member Servers * Clustered Samba support * Exporting Samba stats via Prometheus metrics * A `ceph` cli workflow loosely based on the nfs mgr module
I wanted to share this information in case there's wider community interest in
On Monday, March 25, 2024 1:46:26 PM EDT Ralph Boehme wrote: this effort.
certainly! :)
If it makes sense, you may want to pull in samba-technical where it makes sense.
Absolutely. I'm currently focusing on the basics and those are mostly good- to-go for our needs in current samba releases. In the future, I'm sure we'll run into times where technical help or changes will be needed.
If there's a need, you can also pull me in directly into meetings or other channels to discuss things.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
Looking forward to seeing you at SambaXP, at least virtually.
You too. :-)
Any plans to attend SDC from you or others from your team?
I'm unsure. I'll ask around.