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orangefs: documentation clean up
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Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <[email protected]>
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hubcapsc committed Sep 14, 2017
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BUILDING THE USERSPACE FILESYSTEM ON A SINGLE SERVER
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When Orangefs is upstream, "--with-kernel" shouldn't be needed, but
until then the path to where the kernel with the Orangefs kernel client
patch was built is needed to ensure that pvfs2-client-core (the bridge
between kernel space and user space) will build properly. You can omit
--prefix if you don't care that things are sprinkled around in
/usr/local.
You can omit --prefix if you don't care that things are sprinkled around in
/usr/local. As of version 2.9.6, Orangefs uses Berkeley DB by default, we
will probably be changing the default to lmdb soon.

./configure --prefix=/opt/ofs --with-kernel=/path/to/orangefs/kernel
./configure --prefix=/opt/ofs --with-db-backend=lmdb

make

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/opt/osf/bin/pvfs2-ls /mymountpoint

You might not want to enforce selinux, it doesn't seem to matter by
linux 3.11...

If stuff seems to be working, turn on the client core:
/opt/osf/sbin/pvfs2-client -p /opt/osf/sbin/pvfs2-client-core

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