8 Known Issues

WARNING:

Gluster on Oracle Linux 8 is no longer supported. See Oracle Linux: Product Life Cycle Information for more information.

Oracle Linux 7 is now in Extended Support. See Oracle Linux Extended Support and Oracle Open Source Support Policies for more information. Gluster on Oracle Linux 7 is excluded from extended support.

The following sections describe known issues in this release.

Samba Access Fails with SELinux Enabled

If a node in the trusted storage pool on which you want to enable Samba access has SELinux enabled, Samba clients fail to connect to the volume using both SMB and CIFS.

• With SMB:

  sudo smbclient -U user%password //node1/gluster-gv1 

  tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL 

• With CIFS:

  sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //node1/gluster-gv1 /mnt/glusterfs/ 

  mount error(5): Input/output error Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) 

As a workaround, set the samba_load_libgfapi parameter on the node on which you want to enable Samba access:

sudo setsebool -P samba_load_libgfapi 1

(Bug 28701091)

Samba Access Fails

Samba clients fail to connect to a Gluster volume using both SMB and CIFS. The failure is caused by the unavailability of the samba-vfs-glusterfs package. This issue applies to both x86_64 and aarch64 Oracle Linux 8 systems. On Oracle Linux 7 systems, the issue occurs only on aarch64 platforms.

As a workaround in the absence of the samba-vfs-glusterfs package, you can mount the volume by using FUSE, which is the Gluster native mount, in the same system where the Samba server is running. Then you would share the mount point by using the Samba server.

(Bugs 29048629; 30205755)