glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?
I’m doing some experiments with GlusterFS. Most documents online suggest to install the glusterfs-package as if it was available directly in the repo, and therefore installable via a simple “yum install”.
Unless I’m wrong, it appears that this package is not in the repo for CentOS 6. Does anyone know what happened to it?
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I meant the “glusterfs-server package”. Sorry.
$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
$ yum search gluster
… glusterfs.x86_64 : Cluster File System glusterfs-debuginfo.x86_64 : Debug information for package glusterfs glusterfs-libs.x86_64 : GlusterFS common libraries glusterfs-rdma.x86_64 : GlusterFS rdma support for ib-verbs glusterfs-api.x86_64 : Clustered file-system api library glusterfs-api-devel.x86_64 : Development Libraries glusterfs-devel.x86_64 : Development Libraries glusterfs-fuse.x86_64 : Fuse client
$ yum info glusterfs
… Name : glusterfs Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.4.0.36rhs Release : 1.el6
Size : 1.8 M
Repo : base Summary : Cluster File System URL : http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS
License : GPLv2 or LGPLv3+
Description : GlusterFS is a clustered 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 gluster command line, libglusterfs and glusterfs
: translator modules common to both GlusterFS server and client
: framework.
Yes, it was not built/distributed. You can either rebuild the SRPM and enable the build of the server package or even better – get the RPMs from gluster.org.
Regards, Lucian
So, what is the reason for not distributing it?
Not sure, ask RedHat, it may have to do with http://www.redhat.com/products/storage-server/
If you feel like experimenting, here’s a build with the “server”
feature:
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/glusterfs/el6/x86_64/
Or, as Nux! first suggested:
http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/3.4.2/EPEL.repo/epel-6.5/x86_64/
e.g.
$ wget -P ~/Downloads http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/3.4.2/EPEL.repo/epel-6.5/x86_64/glusterfs-server-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
(all on one line), then
$ sudo yum install ~/Downloads/glusterfs-server-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm