On 3/3/21 4:54 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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. I believe it is more of a functionally thing than a size thing WRT to containers. > > So, for stuff needed in both v4-only and full cases, would we package > that in a common rpm that they both depend on? Well... if we want the packages to be compatible yes there would have to be a common rpm (aka nfs.conf, nfsmount.conf, upcall stuff) But if one only wants a client or server then they don't have to be compatible... steved.
