Am Montag, 9. November 2015, 15:01:04 CET schrieb Jens Axboe: > 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. Thanks. My sponsor Sven just uploaded the debian package to unstable. > > > 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, -- Martin Steigerwald | Consultant / Trainer teamix GmbH Südwestpark 43 90449 Nürnberg Tel.: +49 911 30999 55 | Fax: +49 911 30999 99 mail: martin.steigerwald@xxxxxxxxx | web: http://www.teamix.de | blog: http://blog.teamix.de Amtsgericht Nürnberg, HRB 18320 | Geschäftsführer: Oliver Kügow, Richard Müller teamix Support Hotline: +49 911 30999-112 *** Besuchen Sie uns vom 16.-19.11.2015 auf der NetApp Insight im CityCube in Berlin auf Stand A5. *** -- 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
