Solved GlusterFS, Samba and/or mounting

[Zvoni]

Hi Folks,
please, this is not one of those "again somebody with GlusterFS on FreeBSD".
I've seen and read the threads about it. But they couldn't help me.
The thing is: i have GlusterFS working, the only thing missing is exporting it via Samba.
Setup
2 nodes FreeBSD 12.1 p2 with current Gluster 3.11.1_ and Samba4.10 with distributed replica
(Btw: Anyone knowing about Version >=4 arriving at FreeBSD? Current is v7.2)
ada0 = ZFS-on-Root
ada1 = UFS --> Brick1
ada2 = UFS --> Brick2
i got everything working except the damn Samba-Share (which i need, since it's going to be Windows-Clients mainly).
This part of the Manual eludes me completely: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_glusterfs.8.html

[share]
        vfs objects = glusterfs
        path = /relative/base/path
        glusterfs:volume = gv0
        kernel share modes = no

What in blazes do i have to put in path? Nothing i put there worked.

I thought being clever and mounted the volume to a local Folder, put that Folder as Share in smb4.conf, and hey, presto: I can access it!
now the only example of an FreeBSD-fstab entry i found, doesn't work (FreeBSD hangs up at boot, and i get thrown into a panic root-shell)

GlusterFS on FreeBSD 11.1 / Mount issue

I want to use GlusterFS as a distributed Filestorage on FreeBSD 11.1 Documentation is poor, so I followed some howtos on the net. I could create the glusterfs volume, but I have trouble to mount it...

superuser.com

and yes, i have fuse_load=YES in my /boot/loader.conf since i need it for exFat

Right now the system-crontab is looking pretty. I'm thinking of putting my "manual" mount-command into a script-file, and let cron execute it after boot

Help?

I want to admit something: My fiddling around with FreeBSD (and all that stuff) is kinda a playground for me, since i am capable of setting all that stuff up on Debian/Ubuntu/Manjaro in pretty much one day.
BUT i would really like it, if i could get my machines working with FreeBSD.

EDIT: After thinking about it (and sleeping a night over it) i've come to the conclusion, that it's not a problem of mounting, but with timing.
What i noticed on my "faulty" machine, that it tries to load the "late" filesystems before the Gluster-Daemon is runinng, so of course the fstab-entry is going to fail, since there is no "server1:/gv0" available.
Now, where were the "HowTo"'s to fiddle with rc.d-scripts.....
Still, the optimal solution would be to get a working Samba-config directly sharing the Gluster-Volume, so i wouldn't need to mount the volume...

 

[Zvoni]

I'm an Idiot.
After researching i finally decided to read the port-description on Freshports, and there i noticed that Gluster-Support is OFF (for out-of-box-install).
*GNARF*
make config, select Gluster-Support, make, make install clean (deinstall "old" Samba), tweak the smb4.conf, and i'm in Business!

Lesson learned: First look there, if something is missing.

 

[Zvoni]

Last Edit: And i figured out the late mounting problem, too.
Solution: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236112
But why is Freshports saying 3.11.1_6 if there is a revision 7?