On 3/4/21 9:06 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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. Right with some configuration changes... But I do think there is value with have a package that will work right out of the box! Boom! Install the package and you have a working v4 server with no configure changes... I do think there is value there. steved.
