Information about the package, glusterfs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The glusterfs package is designed for, Distributed File System.
Package Name:
glusterfs
Summary:
Distributed File System
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 includes the glusterfs binary, the glusterfsd daemon and the libglusterfs and glusterfs translator modules common to both GlusterFS server and client framework.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.7.9
Release:
12.el6
Size:
422 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or LGPLv3+
Control the glusterfs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install glusterfs
This command will install glusterfs on the server.
yum remove glusterfs
This command will un-install glusterfs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glusterfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove glusterfs
This command will un-install glusterfs 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update glusterfs
This command will update glusterfs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove glusterfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update glusterfs
This command will update glusterfs 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info glusterfs
This command will show you core information about the glusterfs package.
yum deplist glusterfs
This command will show you the dependencies for glusterfs. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on glusterfs. 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.