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For those of you who would like to test MooseFS functionality i have made vmware container with version 5.3 of CentOS and MooseFS 1.5.12 installed and configured.

To test it, download the vmware container and run it with Free Vmware Player

Steps to follow:
1) download and unpack the vmware container
2) install vmware player if you dont have it already
3) double click the vmx file inside unpacked folder
4)  from vmware player set the network to NAT ( unless you know what you’re doing and wanna configure it manually )
5) at login prompt login with user root and password 1234
6) see what ip address you got from vmware (type ipconfig) in my case was 192.168.144.130
7) edit chunk1 and chunk2 configuration files to reflect the new ip address

mcedit /CLOUD/software/compiled/mfs/chunk1/etc/mfschunkserver.cfg
mcedit /CLOUD/software/compiled/mfs/chunk2/etc/mfschunkserver.cfg

run these commands in the same order as below:

cd /CLOUD/
./start_metaserver.sh
./start_chunk1.sh
./start_chunk2.sh
./mount_mfs.sh

At this moment you should have a mfs storage volume mounted to /CLOUD/storage/ and a file inside named “file_inside_mfs”

if you cannot access /CLOUD/storage/ for some reason you should recheck chunk server configuration and make sure you put the right ip, also check the logs in /var/log/messages

As a point of start i suggest to test the tools located in
/CLOUD/software/compiled/mfs/mount/bin

FYI the actual chunks are saved into /mnt/chunkX/