On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:57:28AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > Personally I see this is the first step away from V3... > > So what we don't need is all that RPC code, all the different mounting > versions... no RPC code at all, which also means no need for libtirpc... > That is a lot of code that goes away, which I think is a good thing. libtirpc is a shared library, it'll still be loaded as long as anyone needs it, and I'm not convinced we'll be able to get rid of all users. > I never thought it was a good idea to have mountd process > the v4 upcalls... I always thought it should be a different > deamon... and now we have one. > > A simple daemon that only processes v4 upcalls. I really do get the appeal, I've always liked the idea too. I'm not sure it's bringing us a real practical advantage at this point, compared to rpc.mountd, which can act either as a daemon that only processes v4 upcalls or can do both, depending on how you start it. --b.
