How To Install ffsb on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffsb on Fedora 34.
What is ffsb
The Flexible Filesystem Benchmark (FFSB) is a cross-platform filesystem performance measurement tool. It uses customizable profiles to measure of different workloads, and it supports multiple groups of threads across multiple filesystems.
We can use yum or dnf to install ffsb on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ffsb.
Install ffsb on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ffsb using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ffsb
Install ffsb on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ffsb using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ffsb
How To Uninstall ffsb on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ffsb package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ffsb
ffsb Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ffsb
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/3086b63c795b130a5e5b0218b958bdddc5ac80
/usr/share/doc/ffsb
/usr/share/doc/ffsb/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ffsb/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ffsb/README
/usr/share/doc/ffsb/examples
/usr/share/doc/ffsb/examples/profile_everything
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffsb on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.