Re: [PATCH 0/7 V4] The NFSv4 only mounting daemon.

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

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?

> >> The following options were ported:
> >>     * multiple threads
> >>     * state-directory-path option
> >>     * junction support (not tested)
> >>
> >> The rest of the mountd options were v3 only options.
> > 
> > There's also --manage-gids.
> Right... a patch was posted... 
> 
> > 
> > If you want nfsv4-only at runtime, you can always run rpc.mountd with
> > -N2 -N3 to turn off the MOUNT protocol support.
> The end game is not to run mountd at all... 
> 
> > 
> > If you don't even want v2/f3 code on your system, then you may have to
> > do something like this, but why is that important?
> Container friendly... Not bring in all the extra daemons v3
> needs is a good thing... esp rpcbind. 

Looking at the output of
$ for f in $(rpm -ql nfs-utils); do if [ -f $f ]; then ls -ls $f; fi; done|sort -n

It looks like removing statd, sm-notify, showount and their man pages
would free about another 170K.

I think that's about how much we'd save by seperating out a separate
documentation package.

I don't know, what sort of gains are container folks asking for?

--b.

> 
> steved.
> 
> > 
> > --b.
> > 
> >>
> >> V2:
> >>   * Added two systemd services: nfsv4-exportd and nfsv4-server
> >>   * nfsv4-server starts rpc.nfsd -N 3, so nfs.conf mod not needed.
> >>
> >> V3: Changed the name from exportd to nfsv4.exportd
> >>
> >> V4: Added compile flag that will compile in the NFSv4 only server
> >>
> >> Steve Dickson (7):
> >>   exportd: the initial shell of the v4 export support
> >>   exportd: Moved cache upcalls routines into libexport.a
> >>   exportd: multiple threads
> >>   exportd/exportfs: Add the state-directory-path option
> >>   exportd: Enabled junction support
> >>   exportd: systemd unit files
> >>   exportd: Added config variable to compile in the NFSv4 only server.
> >>
> >>  .gitignore                                |   1 +
> >>  configure.ac                              |  14 ++
> >>  nfs.conf                                  |   4 +
> >>  support/export/Makefile.am                |   3 +-
> >>  {utils/mountd => support/export}/auth.c   |   4 +-
> >>  {utils/mountd => support/export}/cache.c  |  46 +++-
> >>  support/export/export.h                   |  34 +++
> >>  {utils/mountd => support/export}/fsloc.c  |   0
> >>  {utils/mountd => support/export}/v4root.c |   0
> >>  {utils/mountd => support/include}/fsloc.h |   0
> >>  systemd/Makefile.am                       |   6 +
> >>  systemd/nfs.conf.man                      |  10 +
> >>  systemd/nfsv4-exportd.service             |  12 +
> >>  systemd/nfsv4-server.service              |  31 +++
> >>  utils/Makefile.am                         |   4 +
> >>  utils/exportd/Makefile.am                 |  65 +++++
> >>  utils/exportd/exportd.c                   | 276 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  utils/exportd/exportd.man                 |  81 +++++++
> >>  utils/exportfs/exportfs.c                 |  21 +-
> >>  utils/exportfs/exportfs.man               |   7 +-
> >>  utils/mountd/Makefile.am                  |   5 +-
> >>  21 files changed, 606 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >>  rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/auth.c (99%)
> >>  rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/cache.c (98%)
> >>  create mode 100644 support/export/export.h
> >>  rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/fsloc.c (100%)
> >>  rename {utils/mountd => support/export}/v4root.c (100%)
> >>  rename {utils/mountd => support/include}/fsloc.h (100%)
> >>  create mode 100644 systemd/nfsv4-exportd.service
> >>  create mode 100644 systemd/nfsv4-server.service
> >>  create mode 100644 utils/exportd/Makefile.am
> >>  create mode 100644 utils/exportd/exportd.c
> >>  create mode 100644 utils/exportd/exportd.man
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> 2.29.2
> >