How To Install glusterfs-rdma on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-rdma
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is glusterfs-rdma
GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of scaling to several petabytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is one of the most sophisticated file systems in terms of features and extensibility. It borrows a powerful concept called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code in GlusterFS is in user space and easily manageable. This package provides support to ib-verbs library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install glusterfs-rdma
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glusterfs-rdma.
Install glusterfs-rdma on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs-rdma
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glusterfs-rdma
Install glusterfs-rdma on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs-rdma
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glusterfs-rdma
How To Uninstall glusterfs-rdma on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the glusterfs-rdma
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glusterfs-rdma
glusterfs-rdma Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/3f9d69745d3f3f4882ccbe33b646c0573264c4
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/rpc-transport
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/rpc-transport/rdma.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-rdma
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.