Bug 1308825

Summary:	[FutureFeature] RHGS SMB support for Windows "previous versions" functionality
Product:	[Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Gluster Storage	Reporter:	Marcel Hergaarden <mhergaar>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	rjoseph
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Vivek Das <vdas>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rhgs-3.1	CC:	madam, nlevinki, rcyriac, rhinduja, rjoseph
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature, ZStream
Target Release:	RHGS 3.1.3
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	glusterfs-3.7.9-2	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2016-06-23 05:37:25 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1329716, 1329718
Bug Blocks:	1311386

Description Marcel Hergaarden 2016-02-16 08:52:17 UTC

Description of problem:

Red Hat Gluster Storage is getting interest for Windows file service.
Within Windows filesystems a capability exists for "Previous Versions"
This feature is often asked for in RHGS RFI/RFP trajects.
Currently we don't support this, however it seems to be a realistic possibility from a SAMBA perspective.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHGS 3.1 (and higher)


How reproducible:
Create a SMB share, use a MS Windows client to connect to the RHGS SMB share
Try to access previous versions in Windows. This is not available.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a RHGS volume and export by SMB
2.Access the volume with MS Windows
3.Try to access previous versions in Windows

Actual results:
Not possible

Expected results:
Wannahave

Additional info:
[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/vfs_shadow_copy2.8.html
[2] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/previous-versions-files-faq#1TC=windows-7

This feature is frequently asked for by prospect customers.

Comment 3 Michael Adam 2016-04-13 09:38:05 UTC

*** Bug 1290049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Michael Adam 2016-04-13 09:39:46 UTC

The basic functionality is already present in the existing builds.
A patch to enhance the usability of snapshots via the shadow_copy2
module is currently under review.

Comment 5 rjoseph 2016-04-25 10:11:31 UTC

The feature patch is merged. With this the basic functionality of shadow-copy should be working. Therefore moving this bug to ON_QA. Any bugs in the feature can be tracked separately.

Comment 6 Vivek Das 2016-05-30 15:11:41 UTC

Basic functionality works fine.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-06-23 05:37:25 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1248