How To Install gf_attach on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install glusterfs

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install glusterfs

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is gf_attach and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install gf_attach on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install gf_attach on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install gf_attach using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glusterfs

Install gf_attach on CentOS 8 using yum

Because gf_attach is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install gf_attach package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glusterfs

How to upgrade (update) a single package gf_attach using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like gf_attach in this example you should use the following command:

yum update glusterfs

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade glusterfs

How to Upgrade gf_attach on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update glusterfs

How To remove gf_attach from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gf_attach package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove glusterfs

Extra info and code examples

GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. 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 system 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 userspace and easily manageable. This package installs init scripts and configuration files to turn GlusterFS into a fully fledged file server.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install gf_attach using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the gf_attach from CentOS 8.

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