On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:22:28PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > Hey! > > On 3/3/21 10:23 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:33:23PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 2/24/21 3:30 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. > >>> > >>> How much smaller? > >> Will a bit smaller... but a number of daemons like nfsd[cld,clddb,cldnts] > >> need to also come a long. > > > > Could we get some numbers? > > > > Looks like nfs-utils in F33 is about 1.2M: > > > > $ rpm -qi nfs-utils|grep ^Size > > Size : 1243512 > > > > $ strip utils/mountd/mountd > > $ ls -lh utils/mountd/mountd > > -rwxrwxr-x. 1 bfields bfields 128K Mar 3 10:12 utils/mountd/mountd > > $ strip utils/exportd/exportd > > $ ls -lh utils/exportd/exportd > > -rwxrwxr-x. 1 bfields bfields 106K Mar 3 10:12 utils/exportd/exportd > > > > So replacing mountd by exportd saves us about 20K out of 1.2M. Is it > > worth it? > In smaller foot print I guess I meant no v3 daemons, esp rpcbind. The rpcbind rpm is 120K installed, so if the new v4-only rpm has no dependency on rpcbind then we save 120K. So, for stuff needed in both v4-only and full cases, would we package that in a common rpm that they both depend on? --b.
