How To Install glusterfs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glusterfs.
Install glusterfs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs
using yum
by running the following command:
Install glusterfs 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.
After updating yum database, We can install glusterfs
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall glusterfs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the glusterfs
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glusterfs
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.