How To Install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8.
What is orangefs-server
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. This package provides the pvfs2-client-core which is required to use the kernel module. This package contains the server.
We can use yum or dnf to install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install orangefs-server.
Install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install orangefs-server using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install orangefs-server
Install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install orangefs-server using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install orangefs-server
How To Uninstall orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the orangefs-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove orangefs-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
