How To Install orangefs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs on CentOS 7.
What is orangefs
OrangeFS (formerly PVFS2) is a high-performance parallel network file system designed for use on high performance computing systems. It provides very high performance access to disk storage for parallel applications. It is accessible through a variety of interfaces, including the native OrangeFS library, the kernel, FUSE, and MPI-IO.
We can use yum or dnf to install orangefs on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install orangefs.
Install orangefs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install orangefs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install orangefs
Install orangefs 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 orangefs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install orangefs
How To Uninstall orangefs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the orangefs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove orangefs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
