How to Install and Uninstall lxcfs.x86_64 Package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "lxcfs.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install lxcfs.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                lxcfs.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "lxcfs.x86_64" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall lxcfs.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8):


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                lxcfs.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lxcfs.x86_64 package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

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Available Packages
Name : lxcfs
Version : 3.0.4
Release : 2.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 55 k
Source : lxcfs-3.0.4-2.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : FUSE based filesystem for LXC
URL : https://linuxcontainers.org/lxcfs
License : ASL 2.0
Description : LXCFS is a simple userspace filesystem designed to work around some
: current limitations of the Linux kernel.
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: Specifically, it's providing two main things
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: - A set of files which can be bind-mounted over their /proc originals
: to provide CGroup-aware values.
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: - A cgroupfs-like tree which is container aware.
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: The code is pretty simple, written in C using libfuse.
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: The main driver for this work was the need to run systemd based
: containers as a regular unprivileged user while still allowing systemd
: inside the container to interact with cgroups.
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: Now with the introduction of the cgroup namespace in the Linux kernel,
: that part is no longer necessary on recent kernels and focus is now on
: making containers feel more like a real independent system through the
: proc masking feature.