Re: relationship of fio versus gfio

[Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>]

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,

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