[SOLVED] CephFS over SMB (SMB Module?)

[mn234]

I need to share cephfs over SMB/CIFS when using Proxmox's built-in ceph management.

Ceph has a SMB module, but reading the docs leads me to believe it uses ceph orchestration to manage so it may not work with Proxmox's management.

Anyone have any suggestions or has done it using the smb module?

 

[alexskysilk]

the Ceph stack provided by PVE is designed for use in a PVE hypervisor environment; I totally get the desire to comingle cephfs and rbd but in this specific case your choice is comingle and use your own SMB bridgeheads, or deploy a standard ceph cluster instead of the PVE integrated one. Both options are viable but the latter doesnt allow you to hyperconverge.

 

[mn234]

the Ceph stack provided by PVE is designed for use in a PVE hypervisor environment; I totally get the desire to comingle cephfs and rbd but in this specific case your choice is comingle and use your own SMB bridgeheads, or deploy a standard ceph cluster instead of the PVE integrated one. Both options are viable but the latter doesnt allow you to hyperconverge.

Thanks for letting me know.

I actually found a funny workaround.

I installed samba on the same host and used /localhost/share and point to the cephfs-fuse directory.

It's an odd duck but it works.

 

[alexskysilk]

I installed samba on the same host and used /localhost/share and point to the cephfs-fuse directory.

thats a smb bridgehead although I would use a VM for the purpose instead. and yes, you can mount cephfs inside a vm.