> On Mar 2, 2021, at 5:39 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2/24/21 3:49 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 03:08:08PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>> nfsv4.exportd is a daemon that will listen for only v4 mount upcalls.
>>> The idea is to allow distros to build a v4 only package
>>> which will have a much smaller footprint than the
>>> entire nfs-utils package.
>>>
>>> exportd uses no RPC code, which means none of the
>>> code or arguments that deal with v3 was ported,
>>> this again, makes the footprint much smaller.
>>>
>>> The following options were ported:
>>> * multiple threads
>>> * state-directory-path option
>>> * junction support (not tested)
>>>
>>> The rest of the mountd options were v3 only options.
>>>
>>> V2:
>>> * Added two systemd services: nfsv4-exportd and nfsv4-server
>>> * nfsv4-server starts rpc.nfsd -N 3, so nfs.conf mod not needed.
>>
>> We really shouldn't make users change how they do things.
> If they only want v4 support... I'm thinking is a lot easier to
> simple do a nfsv4.server start verse edit config files.
>
>>
>> Whatever we do, "systemctl start nfs-server" should still be how they
>> start the NFS server.
> Again.. if they install the nfsv4-utils verse the nfs-utils package
> they should expect change... IMHO..
I would prefer having a single nfs-utils package. I don't see
a need for a proliferation of these extra little programs --
let's just make the usual suspects behave better.
> steved.
>>
>> --b.
>>
>>>
>>> V3: Changed the name from exportd to nfsv4.exportd
>>>
>>> V4: Added compile flag that will compile in the NFSv4 only server
>>>
>>> Steve Dickson (7):
>>> exportd: the initial shell of the v4 export support
>>> exportd: Moved cache upcalls routines into libexport.a
>>> exportd: multiple threads
>>> exportd/exportfs: Add the state-directory-path option
>>> exportd: Enabled junction support
>>> exportd: systemd unit files
>>> exportd: Added config variable to compile in the NFSv4 only server.
>>>
>>> .gitignore | 1 +
>>> configure.ac | 14 ++
>>> nfs.conf | 4 +
>>> support/export/Makefile.am | 3 +-
>>> {utils/mountd => support/export}/auth.c | 4 +-
>>> {utils/mountd => support/export}/cache.c | 46 +++-
>>> support/export/export.h | 34 +++
>>> {utils/mountd => support/export}/fsloc.c | 0
>>> {utils/mountd => support/export}/v4root.c | 0
>>> {utils/mountd => support/include}/fsloc.h | 0
>>> systemd/Makefile.am | 6 +
>>> systemd/nfs.conf.man | 10 +
>>> systemd/nfsv4-exportd.service | 12 +
>>> systemd/nfsv4-server.service | 31 +++
>>> utils/Makefile.am | 4 +
>>> utils/exportd/Makefile.am | 65 +++++
>>> utils/exportd/exportd.c | 276 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> utils/exportd/exportd.man | 81 +++++++
>>> utils/exportfs/exportfs.c | 21 +-
>>> utils/exportfs/exportfs.man | 7 +-
>>> utils/mountd/Makefile.am | 5 +-
>>> 21 files changed, 606 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>> rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/auth.c (99%)
>>> rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/cache.c (98%)
>>> create mode 100644 support/export/export.h
>>> rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/fsloc.c (100%)
>>> rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/v4root.c (100%)
>>> rename {utils/mountd => support/include}/fsloc.h (100%)
>>> create mode 100644 systemd/nfsv4-exportd.service
>>> create mode 100644 systemd/nfsv4-server.service
>>> create mode 100644 utils/exportd/Makefile.am
>>> create mode 100644 utils/exportd/exportd.c
>>> create mode 100644 utils/exportd/exportd.man
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.29.2
--
Chuck Lever
