How To Install fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is fedfs-utils-common.noarch
This package contains files common to all of the fedfs packages. RFC 5716 introduces the Federated File System (FedFS, for short). FedFS is an extensible standardized mechanism by which system administrators construct a coherent file name space across multiple file servers using file system referrals. A file system referral is like a symbolic link to another file system share, but it is not visible to applications. It behaves like an auto-mounted directory where a new file system mount is done when an application first accesses that directory. The arguments of the mount operation are controlled by information returned by the file server. Today, file system referral mechanisms exist in several network file system protocols. FedFS provides its file name space features by leveraging referral mechanisms already built in to network file system protocols. Thus no change to file system protocols or clients is required. Currently, the Linux FedFS implementation supports only NFS version 4 referrals. More on NFS version 4 referrals can be found in RFC 3530. FedFS may support other network file system protocols in the future.
We can use yum to install fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fedfs-utils-common.noarch.
Install fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fedfs-utils-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fedfs-utils-common.noarch
How To Uninstall fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the fedfs-utils-common.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove fedfs-utils-common.noarch
fedfs-utils-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5/README
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5/fedfs-schema.ldif
/usr/share/doc/fedfs-utils-common-0.10.5/fedfs.schema
/usr/share/man/man7/fedfs.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedfs-utils-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.