On 07/28/2013 02:18 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
Hi All, There was a recent thread on fedora-devel about bloated glusterfs dependency for qemu: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/186484.html
Yes, but it's all died away after it was explained properly.
As of today, we have the following packages and respective primary constituents: 1. glusterfs - contains all the common xlators, libglusterfs, glusterfsd binary & glusterfs symlink to glusterfsd. 2. glusterfs-rdma - rdma shared library 3. glusterfs-geo-replication - geo-rep related objects 4. glusterfs-fuse - fuse xlator 5. glusterfs-server - server side xlators, config files 6. glusterfs-api - libgfapi shared library 7. glusterfs-resource-agents - OCF resource agents 8. glusterfs-devel - Header files for libglusterfs 9. glusterfs-api-devel - Header files for gfapi As far as qemu is concerned, qemu depends on glusterfs-api which in turn is dependent on glusterfs. Much of the apparent bloat is coming from glusterfs package and one proposal for reducing the dependency footprint of consumers of libgfapi could be the following: a) Move glusterfsd and glusterfs symlink from 'glusterfs' to 'glusterfs-server'
We can't do that, it'll break the "client-side". You can't do a client glusterfs mount without glusterfs at least.....
b) Package glusterfsd binary and glusterfs symlink in 'glusterfs-fuse'
Okay, but the glusterfsd binary is only about 80k — that's tiny — and the symlink is only a few bytes.
And having the same bits in two RPMs could be a problem. I'll have to try it for myself and see, or perhaps Niels already knows, but I'd be worried that if I have both glusterfs-server and glusterfs-fuse installed and I uninstall -fuse it might remove them and break things. Not that anyone should uninstall -fuse without uninstalling -server.
c) Kaleb mentioned about removing geo-replication objects from 'glusterfs' and having them in 'glusterfs-geo-replication' only. I think that might help unless we are breaking something in geo-replication by doing so. Do we remember the original intent behind packaging geo-replication objects in the 'glusterfs' package?
That's already in process for Fedora, and will soon be proposed for the glusterfs.spec.in as well.
d) Remove mac-compat.so, rot-13.so, symlink-cache.so from 'glusterfs'. As practically nobody uses these translators today, I don't see much value in packaging them.
Good suggestion. -- Kaleb
