Bug 2353510

Summary: [SMB] Add ceph_snapshots to samba share definition
Product: [Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Ceph Storage Reporter: Shwetha K Acharya <sacharya>
Component: smbAssignee: Shwetha K Acharya <sacharya>
smb sub component: smb-mgr-module QA Contact: Anushree Hallur <ahallur>
Status: VERIFIED --- Docs Contact: Rivka Pollack <rpollack>
Severity: medium    
Priority: medium CC: anoopcs, cephqe-warriors, jcaratza, mobisht, rpollack, sprabhu, tserlin, vdas
Version: 8.1Keywords: External
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Target Release: 8.1   
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Fixed In Version: ceph-19.2.1-57.el9cp Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
.New CephFS snapshot Volume File System (VFS) module for SMB shares The new VFS module translates CephFS snapshots functionality into Samba and Windows compatible shadow copies. With this enhancement, SMB clients, such as the Windows Explorer `Previous Versions` dialog, can enumerate and access the Ceph snapshots as shadow copies. For more information, see Configuring Volume Shadow Copy Service.
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Description Shwetha K Acharya 2025-03-20 06:47:52 UTC
Description of problem:

In order to expose and manage ceph snapshots as previous versions from Windows, we should enable a relevant exiting vfs module like ceph_snapshots vfs module from
Samba.

Comment 1 Storage PM bot 2025-03-20 06:48:02 UTC
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