openeuler/moosefs repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• The official MooseFS docker image.

• Maintained by: openEuler CloudNative SIG⁠.

• Where to get help: openEuler CloudNative SIG⁠, openEuler⁠.

⁠MooseFS | openEuler

Current MooseFS docker images are built on the openEuler⁠. This repository is free to use and exempted from per-user rate limits.

MooseFS is a Petabyte Open Source Network Distributed File System. It is easy to deploy and maintain, highly reliable, fault tolerant, highly performing, easily scalable and POSIX compliant.

Learn more on moosefs Documentation⁠.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

The tag of each moosefs docker image is consist of the version of moosefs and the version of basic image. The details are as follows

⁠Usage

In this usage, users can select the corresponding {Tag} based on their requirements.

• Pull the openeuler/moosefs image from docker

  docker pull openeuler/moosefs:{Tag}
  

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• Run with an interactive shell

  You can also start the container with an interactive shell to use moosefs.

  docker run -it --rm openeuler/moosefs:{Tag} bash
  

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• Create mfsmaster.cfg

  Create mfs configuration directory:

  mkdir -p /etc/mfs
  

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  Create mfs configuration file /etc/mfs/mfsmaster.cfg:

  DATA_PATH = /var/lib/mfs
  EXPORTS_FILENAME = /etc/mfs/mfsexports.cfg
  
  WORKING_USER = root
  WORKING_GROUP = root
  

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• Create mfsexports.cfg

  /etc/mfs/mfsexports.cfg:

  * / rw,alldirs,maproot=0
  

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• Create empty optional files

  For single-node tests, these can be empty. There're used for rack/host mapping and advanced topology placement.

  • /etc/mfs/mfstopology.cfg
  • /etc/mfs/mfsipmap.cfg

• Initialize metadata

  Inside you data path (/var/lib/mfs):

  mkdir -p /var/lib/mfs
  cd /var/lib/mfs
  echo -e "MFSM NEWMETADATA 1\nEMPTY METADATA FILE" > metadata.mfs.empty
  

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  This creates an empty metadata file, needed for first-time startup.

• Start the MooseFS Master

  /moosefs/mfsmaster/mfsmaster start
  

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⁠Question and answering

If you have any questions or want to use some special features, please submit an issue or a pull request on openeuler-docker-images⁠.