How To Install orangefs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs on Rocky Linux 8. orangefs is Parallel network file system client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is orangefs

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install orangefs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install orangefs.

Install orangefs 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 orangefs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install orangefs

Install orangefs 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 orangefs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install orangefs

How To Uninstall orangefs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove orangefs

orangefs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pvfs2tab
/usr/bin/pvfs2-check-server
/usr/bin/pvfs2-chmod
/usr/bin/pvfs2-chown
/usr/bin/pvfs2-cp
/usr/bin/pvfs2-drop-caches
/usr/bin/pvfs2-fs-dump
/usr/bin/pvfs2-fsck
/usr/bin/pvfs2-get-uid
/usr/bin/pvfs2-getmattr
/usr/bin/pvfs2-ln
/usr/bin/pvfs2-ls
/usr/bin/pvfs2-lsplus
/usr/bin/pvfs2-mkdir
/usr/bin/pvfs2-perf-mon-example
/usr/bin/pvfs2-perf-mon-snmp
/usr/bin/pvfs2-perror
/usr/bin/pvfs2-ping
/usr/bin/pvfs2-remove-object
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-debugmask
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-eventmask
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-mode
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-perf-history
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-perf-interval
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-sync
/usr/bin/pvfs2-set-turn-off-timeouts
/usr/bin/pvfs2-setmattr
/usr/bin/pvfs2-stat
/usr/bin/pvfs2-statfs
/usr/bin/pvfs2-touch
/usr/bin/pvfs2-validate
/usr/bin/pvfs2-viewdist
/usr/bin/pvfs2-write
/usr/bin/pvfs2-xattr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/8ffe442ad27952a6f481d715767022b1025fa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/f18afaefa5ae7692cb44b75f21a036f1288496
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/c2df026cc24575b349ee7b36f54af33fee007a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/3a8ad12abc4ddfa518637aa6ba3d2aae50c462
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/cf023066025d49ed1833da26eb56a9100f63ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/b5797cb9a8aa1fbb958d33eeb0fc2d9cc9ff56
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/56abc99a35f2f421b6f63ec2522e3a5feb916e
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/a5315534fadd55df591a4247ac879dd3a88fb2
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/52696dd0dec94bec7b3cbd4464d7e9afed67c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/841faf432fc14d88650d30051663b73b83d45f
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/de68e9b939fe19ecaa75321a7b04b9040ab477
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/a8e9ba0d04ac077d383743a83ec0071c723aca
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/d3519bddbc2d6bd026a1227e85310225fef284
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/f253116c2108c9479612b5ec94be4aae7f23ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/0e1a11930b887cf984a33169df81229b82a618
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/f7ce3d5dc7df220bb344e0617c63d05d86aa67
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/afc8a531d531862c1a2e3a9d0ab325a90beb53
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/b508c6053929533df6949317dde435d5ceab5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/e7b61b6c74967561ad9be4f1e335b826673101
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/74cad3b74616ea6e88bec7851bf7ffc2b24182
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/92134462caeca66a2a8aaea90747a9affca8db
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/dfb2c87edcf043e8563ba60ac0883336316413
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/366bf37b7055d4ca3472f830d6167feea570d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/ce2ba68b6890b1c8f5c44764052b4ec8759c81
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/6a63a12ba226ef8e47f866dddf60428ce5e036
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/fedcd047aea82d0c34fa01f28d906f8c9da483
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/e7d2a965999dbbadbcaba363009e7daf78261d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/c62b9acacd3e78900361fa7b610427e25eab6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/32ed42f743171d1724e7258db76331be2ce177
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/bb36ea2fba48bf0305519d3e0aca9ca5a0b05e
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/37b6e68cca7b7575a2a571bd673f34a30102a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/66e9bf30c6ba2c5a814c0a2625f7f5dfe0948c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/1d8e9f1b462df1c525ab0df7c43da8e79624d4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/orangefs-client.service
/usr/lib64/libpvfs2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libpvfs2.so.2.9.7
/usr/sbin/pvfs2-client
/usr/sbin/pvfs2-client-core
/usr/share/doc/orangefs
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/coding
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/coding/developer-guidelines.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/bmi-design.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/concepts.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/distributions.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/flow-design.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/fs-semantics.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/handle-allocator.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/pvfs2-client.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/pvfs2-trove-usage.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/request-design.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/storage-interface.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/design/trove-dbpf.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-faq.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-guide.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-ha-heartbeat-v2.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-ha.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-quickstart.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-status.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/pvfs2-tuning.pdf
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/random
/usr/share/doc/orangefs/random/SystemInterfaceTesting.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/getmattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-check-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-chmod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-chown.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-client-core.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-client.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-cp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-drop-caches.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-fs-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-fsck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-get-uid.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-getmattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-ln.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-lsplus.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-mkdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-perf-mon-example.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-perf-mon-snmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-perror.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-ping.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-remove-object.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-debugmask.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-eventmask.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-mode.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-perf-history.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-perf-interval.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-sync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-set-turn-off-timeouts.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-setmattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-stat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-statfs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-touch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-validate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-viewdist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-write.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2-xattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pvfs2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/setmattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pvfs2tab.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.