engines like rdma engine that require additional dependencies

engines like rdma engine that require additional dependencies

[Martin Steigerwald]

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?

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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Re: engines like rdma engine that require additional dependencies

[Jens Axboe]

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