On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:42:24AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > 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. > The point with rpcbind is it not going to be started which means > it not opening up listening connection that may never be used. > This has pissed of people for years! :-) OK, but we can do that without replacing mountd and changing the way everyone installs nfs-utils and runs the nfs server. --b.
