Exports a SeaweedFS FUSE mount over SMB with Samba's smbd and drives it with
smbclient, verifying that SMB file operations work correctly on top of the
mount and that data stays consistent across both protocols.
What it checks
The functional battery in smb_tests.sh covers:
connecting to the share and listing the root
1 MiB upload/download round-trip with content verification
cross-protocol consistency: files written over SMB appear on the FUSE mount
with identical content, and files written directly on the FUSE mount are
readable over SMB
deleting files and directory trees
The locking / concurrency battery in lock_tests.sh covers the harder cases a
network-filesystem backend has to get right:
POSIX fcntl byte-range locking on the FUSE mount: a held exclusive lock
denies a conflicting lock, allows a non-overlapping range, and is reacquirable
after release (exercises the mount's SetLk/GetLk)
Distributed locking (-dlm): a file held open for writing on one mount
blocks a writer on a second mount until it is released
Distributed-lock integrity: concurrent writers to the same file from two
mounts leave exactly one intact payload, never a torn mix
Concurrency: parallel writers to distinct files all succeed
Both FUSE mounts are started with -dlm (distributed lock manager). The second
mount (/mnt/seaweedfs2) exists only to contend with the smbd-backed mount in
the distributed-locking tests; both see the same filer path, so .../share is
the same data on each.
Note on DLM semantics: -dlm coordinates write access (one mount writes a
file at a time) and guarantees writes are not torn. It does not guarantee
which concurrent writer wins or instant cross-mount read convergence — the
holder's buffered data is flushed on close, asynchronously to lock release.
When a holder closes the file, a writer on another mount acquires the freed
lock within ~1s and completes.
Layout
File
Purpose
smb_tests.sh
SMB functional battery. Shared by both runners.
lock_tests.sh
SMB locking / concurrency battery. Shared by both runners.
smb.conf.template
Samba config; placeholders are filled in at run time.
run.sh
Local runner: weed mini + two -dlm mounts + smbd + both batteries, all as the current user on unprivileged ports.
entrypoint.sh
Container entrypoint: starts two -dlm FUSE mounts and runs smbd.
run_inside_container.sh
Runs both batteries inside the container against the local smbd.
Dockerfile
Adds Samba to the chrislusf/seaweedfs:e2e image.
docker-compose.yml
master + volume + filer + samba services.
Running locally
Requirements: weed on $PATH, fusermount3, and Samba's smbd /
smbclient / smbpasswd (Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install samba smbclient).
test/samba/run.sh
No sudo is needed: smbd runs as the current user on port 4450 and all state
lives under a temp work dir that is cleaned up on exit.
Running with Docker
Mirrors the CI job. Requires /dev/fuse and SYS_ADMIN (provided in the
compose file).
# build the base e2e image first (from the repo's docker/ dir)
docker compose -f test/samba/docker-compose.yml up --wait
docker compose -f test/samba/docker-compose.yml exec -T samba /run_inside_container.sh
docker compose -f test/samba/docker-compose.yml down -v
CI
.github/workflows/samba-integration.yml runs on changes to weed/mount/**,
weed/filer/**, or test/samba/**. It builds the e2e image, builds the Samba
harness image on top, brings up the cluster, runs the battery, and uploads
server logs as artifacts.
Notes
The share disables Samba's DOS-attribute / xattr mapping and oplocks. The
SeaweedFS FUSE mount does not implement that surface, and leaving it on
produces NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED errors unrelated to data integrity.
The share path is a subdirectory of the mount (.../share) so the runner can
verify SMB-side operations directly on the FUSE side.