Installing the mapr-loopbacknfs Package

POSIX clients enable application servers, web servers, and other client nodes and applications to read and write directly and securely to a Data Fabric cluster.

About this task

Consider installing mapr-loopbacknfs if you need a secure POSIX client. You can install the mapr-loopbacknfs client on any client node, even your laptop, if you have Linux installed. A client node must have a supported Linux OS distribution and must be outside the Data Fabric cluster, not running mapr-fileserver or other Hadoop services. You cannot install the Data Fabric POSIX client on a Windows or Mac OS X machine.

As a POSIX client, mapr-loopbacknfs can use any of the 10 POSIX connections provided by the Basic license. If you need more POSIX client connections, consider upgrading to a Platinum license, as described in Preparing for Installation (HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric POSIX Client).

ATTENTION
Note that the Installer installs mapr-loopbacknfs on all nodes in the cluster when Enable NFS is not specified.

To install mapr-loopbacknfs on your machine, perform the following steps for your version of Linux, as the root user or using sudo. The package is installed to the /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs directory.

  • For CentOS, RHEL, or Oracle Linux
    [root@ip-<ip_address> ~] # yum install mapr-loopbacknfs
  • For SLES
    # zypper install mapr-compat-suse
    # zypper install mapr-loopbacknfs
  • For Ubuntu
    # sudo apt-get install mapr-loopbacknfs