How To Install filebench.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install filebench.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. filebench.x86_64 is A model based file system workload generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install filebench.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `filebench.x86_64`

Filebench is a file system and storage benchmark that allows to generate a high variety of workloads. It employs extensive Workload Model Language (WML) for detailed workload specification.

We can use yum to install filebench.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install filebench.x86_64.

Install filebench.x86_64 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 filebench.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install filebench.x86_64

How To Uninstall filebench.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the filebench.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove filebench.x86_64

filebench.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/filebench
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/README
/usr/share/doc/filebench-1.4.9.1/TODO
/usr/share/filebench
/usr/share/filebench/workloads
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/compflow_demo.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/copyfiles.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/createfiles.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_create.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_createfiles.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_createrand.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_delete.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_rread.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_rwrite.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_rwritedsync.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_rwritefsync.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_seqread.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_seqwrite.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_seqwriterand.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_seqwriterandvargam.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_seqwriterandvartab.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_statfile.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/filemicro_writefsync.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/fileserver.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/fivestreamread.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/fivestreamreaddirect.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/fivestreamwrite.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/fivestreamwritedirect.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/listdirs.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/makedirs.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/mongo.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/netsfs.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/networkfs.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/oltp.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/openfiles.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/randomfileaccess.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/randomread.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/randomrw.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/randomwrite.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/ratelimcopyfiles.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/removedirs.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/singlestreamread.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/singlestreamreaddirect.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/singlestreamwrite.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/singlestreamwritedirect.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/tpcso.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/varmail.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/videoserver.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/webproxy.f
/usr/share/filebench/workloads/webserver.f
/usr/share/man/man1/filebench.1.gz

References

filebench.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install filebench.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.