Object Storage Service:Installation

Runtime environment

• Linux-based operating systems
  • CentOS 7.0 or later
  • Ubuntu 14.04 or later
  • Anolis7 or later
• Fuse 2.8.4 or later

Download URLs

The preceding table provides the download URLs of ossfs installation packages for common operating systems. If your operating system is not included in the table, install ossfs by compiling the source code. For more information about the URL of the source code and how to compile the source code, see GitHub ossfs.

Installation

1. Download the installation package.
   For example, run the following command to download the ossfs installation package for CentOS 7.0 (x64):

   wget http://gosspublic.alicdn.com/ossfs/ossfs_1.80.6_centos7.0_x86_64.rpm

2. Install ossfs.
   • Ubuntu
     For example, you can run the following command to install ossfs in Ubuntu 16.04 (x64):

     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
     sudo gdebi ossfs_1.80.6_ubuntu16.04_amd64.deb

   • CentOS/Anolis
     For example, you can run the following command to install ossfs in CentOS 7.0 (x64):

     sudo yum install ossfs_1.80.6_centos7.0_x86_64.rpm

     If your client uses Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) to install the Red-hat Package Manager (RPM) package, dependencies may fail to be downloaded by using YUM when the client node network environment is not suitable. To resolve this issue, you can use YUM to download the dependencies over the normal network to a node that runs the same operating system version, and then copy the dependencies to the required node. For example, ossfs runs based on fuse 2.8.4 or later. You can run the following command to download the latest version of fuse from the YUM source to your local device:

     sudo yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=./ fuse

     Important To download other dependencies, replace fuse with the name of the required package.
3. If you want the content type of the uploaded object to match the object name extension, you must add the mime.types file.
   If you do not add the mime.types file, OSS sets Content-Type of the uploaded object to application/octet-stream by default.

   The following examples show how to run the specified command to add the mime.types file.

   • Ubuntu
     You can run the following command to add the mime.types file:

     sudo apt-get install mime-support

   • CentOS/Anolis
     You can run the following command to add the mime.types file:

     sudo yum install mailcap

4. Configure access information of the account.
   Store the bucket name and the AccessKey pair that can be used to access the bucket in the /etc/passwd-ossfs file. We recommend that you set the object permission to 640.

   echo BucketName:yourAccessKeyId:yourAccessKeySecret > /etc/passwd-ossfs
   chmod 640 /etc/passwd-ossfs

   Replace BucketName, yourAccessKeyId, and yourAccessKeySecret with your actual bucket name, AccessKey ID, and AccessKey secret. Example:

   echo bucket-test:LTAIbZcdVCmQ****:MOk8x0y9hxQ31coh7A5e2MZEUz**** > /etc/passwd-ossfs
   chmod 640 /etc/passwd-ossfs

5. Mount the bucket to the specified directory.

   ossfs BucketName mountfolder -o url=Endpoint

   For example, you can run the following command to mount a bucket named bucket-test in the China (Hangzhou) region to the /tmp/ossfs directory.

   mkdir /tmp/ossfs
   ossfs bucket-test /tmp/ossfs -o url=http://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com

   Important If you use an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance to provide ossfs services, you can use the internal endpoint of the bucket. In the preceding example, you can set the endpoint of the bucket to oss-cn-hangzhou-internal.aliyuncs.com to minimize traffic fees. For more information about the internal endpoints of OSS, see Regions and endpoints.
6. If you no longer want to mount the bucket, you can run the following command to unmount it:

   fusermount -u /tmp/ossfs

   For more information, visit GitHub ossfs.

Version history

For more information about the version history of ossfs, visit GitHub ChangeLog.