gfarm-spack

Spack repository for Gfarm file system.

About Spack, Gfarm, and gfarm2fs

Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. Gfarm is a distributed file system for large-scale cluster computing and wide-area data sharing, providing the fine-grained replica location control. gfarm2fs is a Linux FUSE client for Gfarm file system. Visit each link for the detail information.

Packages

This repository provides the following packages:

• gfarm
• gfarm2fs

gfarm package

The gfarm package provides the Gfarm file system programs.

Variants

gfarm package supports the following variants:

name	default	Allowed values	Description
infiniband	none		Specifies to use RDMA through InfiniBand. You can specify the custome prefix for InifiniBand (i.e. infiniband=/usr/local).
xmlattr	off	on, off	Enables XML extended attribute feature.

gfarm2fs package

The gfarm2fs provides the Linux FUSE client for Gfarm file system.

Variants

gfarm2fs package supports the following variants:

name	default	Allowed values	Description
acl	off	on, off	Support acl feature

Usage

1. Install this Spack repository to your environment.

   git clone git@github.com/oss-tsukuba/gfarm-spack
   spack repo add gfarm-spack

2. Install a package you would like to use.

   spack install gfarm

   or

   spack install gfarm+xmlattr infiniband=/usr/local

   or

   spack install gfarm2fs

   or

   spack install gfarm2fs gfarm+xmlattr

3. Load a package to your environment.

   spack load gfarm gfarm2fs

   If you are using Module system, run the following command:

   source <(spack module tcl loads gfarm gfarm2fs)
   

4. Now, you can use Gfarm file system in your Spack environment.

Current Limitations

Need to install libfuse v2 devel package on the system

Currently, gfarm2fs package requires to install libfuse v2 devel package as dependencies manually. Run the following command to install the package on your Linux distribution:

Ubuntu

sudo apt install libfuse-dev

CentOS

sudo yum install fuse-devel

After installing the package, create/update ~/.spack/linux/packages.yaml config file with the following values:

---
packages:
  libfuse:
    buildable: no
    externals:
    - spec: libfuse
      prefix: /usr/

This let Spack use libfuse package installed on the system.