Information about the package, glusterfs-api, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The glusterfs-api package is designed for, GlusterFS api library.
Package Name:
glusterfs-api
Summary:
GlusterFS api library
Description:
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 provides the glusterfs libgfapi library.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.7.9
Release:
12.el6
Size:
58 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or LGPLv3+
Control the glusterfs-api package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install glusterfs-api
This command will install glusterfs-api on the server.
yum remove glusterfs-api
This command will un-install glusterfs-api on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glusterfs-api, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove glusterfs-api
This command will un-install glusterfs-api on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove glusterfs-api when using the -y flag.
yum update glusterfs-api
This command will update glusterfs-api to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glusterfs-api, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update glusterfs-api
This command will update glusterfs-api to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove glusterfs-api when using the -y flag.
yum info glusterfs-api
This command will show you core information about the glusterfs-api package.
yum deplist glusterfs-api
This command will show you the dependencies for glusterfs-api. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update glusterfs-api
This command will check if there is an update waiting on glusterfs-api. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.