How To Install glusterfs-api on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-api on CentOS 8.
What is glusterfs-api
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 the glusterfs libgfapi library.
We can use yum or dnf to install glusterfs-api on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glusterfs-api.
Install glusterfs-api 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-api using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glusterfs-api
Install glusterfs-api 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-api using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glusterfs-api
How To Uninstall glusterfs-api on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the glusterfs-api package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glusterfs-api
glusterfs-api Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/e9cd59762b7c1452e104bf22f9db705b71f7a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/fd1ba38b552ec37767e90f0686192dd3e893ad
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/mount
/usr/lib64/glusterfs/6.0/xlator/mount/api.so
/usr/lib64/libgfapi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgfapi.so.0.0.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs-api on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.