On 2011-10-15 11:44, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Jens! > > I discussed with my package sponsor about whether to build rdma engine for > fio 1.59 debian package or not. We decided to do it and see how it builds > on all architectures. > > But on installing fio now also two additional libs get installed and one of > them creates a user named "rdma". > > I wonder whether it would be feasible or good to have engines that require > external dependencies as modules that could be packaged separately. > > Might not matter much as long as its only the rdma engine tough. > > What do you think? It should be fairly easy to do that, fio already supports loading external engines via dlopen(). So if engine/rdma.c is built as a dynamically loadable object, then it could be packaged as fio-engine-rdma or something like that. -- 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
