How To Install glusterfs on CentOS 8
glusterfs is Distributed File System
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs on CentOS 8.
What is glusterfs
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 includes the glusterfs binary, the glusterfsd daemon and the libglusterfs and glusterfs translator modules common to both GlusterFS server and client framework.
We can use yum or dnf to install glusterfs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glusterfs.
Install glusterfs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glusterfs
Install glusterfs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glusterfs
How To Uninstall glusterfs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the glusterfs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glusterfs
glusterfs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/run/gluster
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/50d5fd025b9a44e74045f5f664a64138b08c62
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/0e7c72c4a12555943c662b275bd10ba84cb7b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/3ab64c67ba065fc6d65b5be7b5cb84731f66fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/5ea4023eb5c9bb26798f563e9770a519f03c71
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/f1c70bbda42423b6670a5e8e67084b585cb0ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f1358e6fa1aba3cfebca9bbbc7e3f6329180a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/3c469be9f9f89851930b7a3600656c1cfc901f
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/780a54e7e5c300d7358e24f4e4bb29fae3bacc
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/4aba3996095ad5c72673745a5f18db5b12a804
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/6be9695e57ecafcd04117e275e052b64a15173
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/1b01027389af8773d62267a8fdacdcddd9e6df
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/d78ff0946becd7a8e051c139c1c36ce64b3d9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/50d02341ee91f66d455f059070bde4ca44414c
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/1aecef10280631a6db3d0824301379ae3f0a19
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/3f8f0a7bc9ac2b1951ce9556654c4e52f2d68b
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/3f2ebb1f5d07a38f729e573943ccc078b6f203
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/d2299ce2fc5c8abe9074b139f33c0c57685ce0
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/723f5d3122a9222a75cbcd9a5046a87bf72a5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/a97fe6e8652bcea596300c1d5f48595bebb3e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/254975e8a2a40c21e5202f52306b509a12fea3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/2d8cbac4ca94ad9bf034a59cbcee9b9d3fd2df
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/700ff47d4ce840db3778c4b1e603a0013c280f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/7f4153f4d2379b07b5f8152e00119e483ac1ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/d8cde7ea77fc92c28a7f9de7db482bbf2aa2da
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/691ddda6f236ab580e4d3097d7dab9698127a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/2e99d5365164343670f16630a7c42f3cf92e8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/f95ac7eebaef39506d3ee5a807ef4151a73bfc
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/6307ebf0e6d19fa7a842d2528947ec1088ee71
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/f932778074ae12208ee27c30b23d15b670525b
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/e5b6ac0fc8287330c870c06a7b4bd8aa73f6f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/dfd9c1e075e1263443891741da9b4b59ad6ea7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/c29cd0f93e644e0d88239d1a0d25f4aeb0a03a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/3f0e31e81a9a5fbe4729c3136c79a0e20277ee
/usr/lib64/glusterfs
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/auth
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/auth/addr.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/auth/login.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/rpc-transport
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/rpc-transport/socket.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug/delay-gen.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug/error-gen.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug/io-stats.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug/sink.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/debug/trace.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/access-control.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/barrier.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/cdc.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/changelog.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/cloudsync.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/gfid-access.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/namespace.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/read-only.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/shard.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/snapview-client.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/utime.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/features/worm.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/meta.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/io-cache.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/io-threads.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/md-cache.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/nl-cache.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/open-behind.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/quick-read.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/read-ahead.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/readdir-ahead.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/stat-prefetch.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/performance/write-behind.so
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/system
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/system/posix-acl.so
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/COMMITMENT
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/COPYING-GPLV2
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/COPYING-LGPLV3
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/README.md
/usr/share/doc/glusterfs/THANKS
/usr/share/glusterfs/scripts/collect-system-stats.sh
/usr/share/glusterfs/scripts/identify-hangs.sh
/usr/share/glusterfs/scripts/log_accounting.sh
/usr/share/man/man8/gluster-setgfid2path.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gluster.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/glusterfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.glusterfs.8.gz
/var/log/glusterfs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.