How To Install ceph-mds on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-mds in Fedora 36. ceph-mds is Ceph Metadata Server Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-mds on Fedora 36.

What is `ceph-mds`

ceph-mds is the metadata server daemon for the Ceph distributed file system. One or more instances of ceph-mds collectively manage the file system namespace, coordinating access to the shared OSD cluster.

We can use yum or dnf to install ceph-mds on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ceph-mds.

Install ceph-mds on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ceph-mds using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ceph-mds

Install ceph-mds on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ceph-mds using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ceph-mds

How To Uninstall ceph-mds on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ceph-mds package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ceph-mds

ceph-mds Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ceph-mds
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/b0c9d6350695f99317c54cbed35fa5f8cc1a26
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-mds.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/man/man8/ceph-mds.8.gz
/var/lib/ceph/mds

References

ceph-mds website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-mds on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).