Author: Petros Koutoupis (petros@petroskoutoupis.com)

Building and Installing the rapiddisk kernel modules and utilities

Change into the project's parent directory path.

To build the rapiddisk management utility, you will need to have the libjansson and libmicrohttpd development library files installed on your host system.

You are required to having either the full kernel source or the kernel headers installed for your current kernel revision.

To build rapiddisk from source, you would type the following on the command line:

# make

To install rapiddisk (must execute with superuser rights: sudo):

# make install

To uninstall rapiddisk (must execute with superuser rights: sudo):

# make uninstall

The rapiddisk utility will install in /sbin/

For utility information please reference the rapiddisk manual page:

# man 1 rapiddisk

Inserting/Removing the rapiddisk / rapiddisk-cache kernel modules

To insert the rapiddisk module:

# modprobe rapiddisk

To remove the rapiddisk module:

# modprobe -r rapiddisk

To insert the rapiddisk-cache module:

# modprobe rapiddisk-cache

To remove the rapiddisk-cache module:

# modprobe -r rapiddisk-cache

Building and installing / uninstalling the tools ONLY

Installing:

# make tools-install

Uninstalling:

# make tools-uninstall

Installing modules for DKMS support

# make dkms-install

Uninstalling modules for DKMS support

# make dkms-uninstall

Managing the RapidDisk daemon service

After installation, to start the service via systemd:

# systemctl start rapiddiskd.service

To check the status of the service via systemd:

# systemctl status rapiddiskd.service

To stop the service via systemd:

# systemctl stop rapiddiskd.service

To start the service at boot via systemd:

# systemctl enable rapiddiskd.service