Re: [Moosefs-users] MooseFS to NFS gateway

[Deon C. <deo...@gm...>]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Boris Epstein <bor...@gm...> wrote:

> Now that we are on the topic - if I need to build an SMB/CIFS gateway to
> MooseFs what in your opinion would be the best way to do that?
>

Hi Boris,

I currently use moose as third tier backup storage. I run my
masters/metaloggers on SL6.2.

None of my clients connect directly via mfsmount. On the moose master I
have samba re-exporting a mfsmount. All my windows servers connect via
samba and squirt their incrementals into the moose.
Even for the odd linux server which I need to create tarballs and send them
off I still connect via cifs due to not having to install and configure
another piece of software. For my use this is acceptable.

I also have a metalogger server using NFS to re-export a different mfsmount
directory. All my ESXi (which I am replacing with KVM) boxes connect to
this whenever I need to archive any old vm's which serve no purpose anymore
but management doesn't want to delete it.

My environment is kinda weird though, we are a MS SPLA partner providing
hosting for MS products, all running on free as in beer infrastructure
underneath lol.