How To Install moosefs-master on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
3 minutes • 450 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install moosefs-master on Ubuntu.
What is moosefs-master
moosefs-master is:
MooseFS master (metadata) server.
MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems:
- A hierarchical structure (directory tree).
- POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times).
- Special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets).
- Symbolic links and hard links.
- Access control based on IP address and/or password.
Distinctive features of MooseFS are:
- High availability.
- Fault tolerance.
- Strong integrity check.
- Capacity is dynamically expandable by simply adding new computers/disks.
- Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system level “trash bin”).
- Coherent snapshots of files, even during I/O.
There are three methods to install moosefs-master on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install moosefs-master Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-master using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install moosefs-master
Install moosefs-master Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-master using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install moosefs-master
Install moosefs-master Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install moosefs-master using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install moosefs-master
How To Uninstall moosefs-master on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the moosefs-master package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove moosefs-master
Uninstall moosefs-master And Its Dependencies
To uninstall moosefs-master and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove moosefs-master
Remove moosefs-master Configurations and Data
To remove moosefs-master configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge moosefs-master
Remove moosefs-master configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove moosefs-master configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moosefs-master
Dependencies
moosefs-master have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install moosefs-master package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.