Hi, Those of you tracking git developments may have noticed that I created a client-server branch and did a bit of hacking in there. It's not complete yet, but it's the start of splitting fio into a frontend/backend setup, with the two communicating over via simple protocol over tcp/ip. This enables you to run fio servers on test machines, with the frontend being run on your desktop etc. I suspect not that many people will be interested in that particular feature, but it does open up the door for fairly easily writing new and simple frontends since you can know control fio by sending commands over even just localhost. One thing that I think would be very cool is a gtk2 frontend. Something that allows you to simply click and select options and then run the job, with graphical representation of the ETA and final output. If you have gtk development experience, or simply the desire to start this project for fio, then please do get in touch. Otherwise I'll start this myself, once I'm done with the basic frontend/backend funtionality. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
