How To Install orangefs-server on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server in Fedora 36. orangefs-server is Parallel network file system server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on Fedora 36.

What is orangefs-server

OrangeFS (formerly PVFS2) is a high-performance parallel network file system designed for use on high performance computing systems. It provides very high performance access to disk storage for parallel applications. It is accessible through a variety of interfaces, including the native OrangeFS library, the kernel, FUSE, and MPI-IO. This package provides the pvfs2-client-core which is required to use the kernel module. This package contains the server.

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

Install orangefs-server 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 orangefs-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install orangefs-server

Install orangefs-server 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 orangefs-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install orangefs-server

How To Uninstall orangefs-server on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the orangefs-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove orangefs-server

orangefs-server Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/orangefs
/etc/orangefs/orangefs.conf
/usr/bin/pvfs2-genconfig
/usr/bin/pvfs2-mkspace
/usr/bin/pvfs2-showcoll
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/873dea5f56064c440957b78532e891b2d9f16c
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/f731213c1b2cd1daee2a1aa0e768cc74719f87
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/aa8a9520ff962719a005126b889cbb6435e9cc
/usr/lib/systemd/system/orangefs-server.service
/usr/sbin/pvfs2-server
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-genconfig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-mkspace.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-showcoll.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/orangefs.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/orangefs

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Summary

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