From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 V4] The NFSv4 only mounting daemon.
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:42:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16b186ea-1abc-511d-3c38-1014b470eaa0@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210303215415.GE3949@fieldses.org>
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! :-)
>
> So, for stuff needed in both v4-only and full cases, would we package
> that in a common rpm that they both depend on?
I thought of this... but I was going to get both packages working
and then figure out what is common between them.
steved.
>
> --b.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 20:08 [PATCH 0/7 V4] The NFSv4 only mounting daemon Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/7] exportd: the initial shell of the v4 export support Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/7] exportd: Moved cache upcalls routines into libexport.a Steve Dickson
2021-02-23 16:13 ` [PATCH] exportd: server-side gid management Daniel Kobras
2021-03-04 21:28 ` Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] exportd: multiple threads Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] exportd/exportfs: Add the state-directory-path option Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] exportd: Enabled junction support Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] exportd: systemd unit files Steve Dickson
2021-02-19 20:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] exportd: Added config variable to compile in the NFSv4 only server Steve Dickson
2021-02-20 16:33 ` [PATCH 0/7 V4] The NFSv4 only mounting daemon Steve Dickson
2021-02-24 20:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-02 22:33 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-03 15:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-03 21:22 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-03 21:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-03 22:07 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-03 22:17 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-04 13:57 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-04 14:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-04 16:31 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-05 14:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-05 15:53 ` Chuck Lever
2021-03-04 13:42 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2021-03-04 14:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-04 16:47 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-04 21:31 ` Patrick Goetz
2021-03-04 13:34 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-04 14:24 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-04 16:20 ` Steve Dickson
2021-02-24 20:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-03-02 22:39 ` Steve Dickson
2021-03-03 18:10 ` Chuck Lever
2021-03-03 21:24 ` Steve Dickson
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