Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on CentOS 8.
What is cachefilesd
The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that are that are used by network file systems such a AFS and NFS to do persistent caching to the local disk.
We can use yum or dnf to install cachefilesd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cachefilesd.
Install cachefilesd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cachefilesd
Install cachefilesd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cachefilesd
How To Uninstall cachefilesd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cachefilesd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cachefilesd
cachefilesd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/cachefilesd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/cc4f8981e87c135904a3a72d5012244e24e945
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cachefilesd.service
/usr/sbin/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.fc
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.if
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.te
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/howto.txt
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/move-cache.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/cachefilesd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cachefilesd.8.gz
/var/cache/fscache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
