On 11/06/2015 01:54 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
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.
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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