How To Install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7.
What is fedfs-utils-server
This package contains tools for managing NFS and FedFS junctions on a Linux NFS file server. 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 or dnf to install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fedfs-utils-server.
Install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fedfs-utils-server using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fedfs-utils-server
Install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fedfs-utils-server using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fedfs-utils-server
How To Uninstall fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fedfs-utils-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fedfs-utils-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedfs-utils-server on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.