relationship of fio versus gfio
Hello Jens, hello fio community.
During package review of my new fio package my reviewer raised the question of the relationship between gfio and fio. I already also wondered about it before.
Can gfio be used on a system, without fio installed? My guess would be yes: As fio could be running on another machine as a server.
Also currently I have it that gfio is linked against the same libraries as fio. Is a complete fio engine included in gfio?
Thanks,
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Hello Jens, hello fio community.
During package review of my new fio package my reviewer raised the question of the relationship between gfio and fio. I already also wondered about it before.
Can gfio be used on a system, without fio installed? My guess would be yes: As fio could be running on another machine as a server.
That is correct.
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Also currently I have it that gfio is linked against the same libraries as fio. Is a complete fio engine included in gfio?
There was a plan to more cleanly separate them, as the client frontends need not link with all the nitty gritty details as the backend. But the amount of effort required to get that cleaner meant that it didn't really happen. It's not difficult, it's just a lot of manual work in establishing the code boundaries between the two.
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Jens Axboe
Am Montag, 9. November 2015, 15:01:04 CET schrieb Jens Axboe:
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Hello Jens, hello fio community.
During package review of my new fio package my reviewer raised the question of the relationship between gfio and fio. I already also wondered about it before.
Can gfio be used on a system, without fio installed? My guess would be
yes: As fio could be running on another machine as a server.That is correct.
Thanks. My sponsor Sven just uploaded the debian package to unstable.
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Also currently I have it that gfio is linked against the same libraries as fio. Is a complete fio engine included in gfio?
There was a plan to more cleanly separate them, as the client frontends need not link with all the nitty gritty details as the backend. But the amount of effort required to get that cleaner meant that it didn't really happen. It's not difficult, it's just a lot of manual work in establishing the code boundaries between the two.
I see.
I also wondered about doing some Qt Quick based frontend for fio, but never got along starting it. Also it would be redoing work that is already done (gfio).
Thanks,
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Am Montag, 9. November 2015, 15:01:04 CET schrieb Jens Axboe:
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Hello Jens, hello fio community.
During package review of my new fio package my reviewer raised the question of the relationship between gfio and fio. I already also wondered about it before.
Can gfio be used on a system, without fio installed? My guess would be
yes: As fio could be running on another machine as a server.That is correct.
Thanks. My sponsor Sven just uploaded the debian package to unstable.
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Also currently I have it that gfio is linked against the same libraries as fio. Is a complete fio engine included in gfio?
There was a plan to more cleanly separate them, as the client frontends need not link with all the nitty gritty details as the backend. But the amount of effort required to get that cleaner meant that it didn't really happen. It's not difficult, it's just a lot of manual work in establishing the code boundaries between the two.
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I see.
I also wondered about doing some Qt Quick based frontend for fio, but never got along starting it. Also it would be redoing work that is already done (gfio).
That'd be great, though. gtk isn't very portable, one of the goals of the gui frontend was to have something that people on OSX/Windows could also use without having to resort to a command line.
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Jens Axboe