Re: [Gluster-devel] RPM re-structuring

[Anand Avati]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Vijay Bellur <address@hidden> 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

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'
b) Package glusterfsd binary and glusterfs symlink in 'glusterfs-fuse'

Does that mean glusterfsd is in glusterfs-server or glusterfs-fuse? It is probably sufficient to leave glusterfs-fuse just have fuse.so and mount.glusterfs.in

Another model can be:

0. glusterfs-libs.rpm - libglusterfs.so libgfrpc.so libgfxdr.so

1. glusterfs (depends on glusterfs-libs) - glusterfsd binary, glusterfs symlink, all common xlators

2. glusterfs-rdma (depends on glusterfs) - rdma shared library

3. glusterfs-geo-replication (depends on glusterfs) - geo-rep related objects

4. glusterfs-fuse (depends on glusterfs) - fuse xlator, mount.glusterfs

5. glusterfs-server (depends on glusterfs) - server side xlators, config files

6. glusterfs-api (depends on glusterfs-libs) - libgfapi.so and api.so

7. glusterfs-resource-agents (depends on glusterfs)

8. glusterfs-devel (depends on glusterfs-libs) - header files for libglusterfs

9. glusterfs-api-devel (depends on glusterfs-api) - header files for gfapi

This way qemu will only pick up libgfapi.so libglusterfs.so libgfrpc.so and libgfxdr.so (the bare minimum to "just execute") for the binary to load at run time. Those who want to store vm images natively on gluster must also do a 'yum install glusterfs' to make gfapi 'useful'. This way Fedora qemu users who do not plan to use gluster will not get any of the xlator cruft.

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?

Which are the geo-replication objects in 'glusterfs'? I don't recall any incident where something from geo-replication package was moved into glusterfs package for a specific reason.

 

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.

+1

Avati