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

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

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:34:45AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> Here are the numbers. Remember things are still in development so
> these may not be the final numbers
> 
> For the v4 only client
> rpm -qi nfsv4-client-utils-2* | grep ^Size
> Size        : 374573
> 
> for the v4only server:
> rpm -qi nfsv4-utils-2* | grep ^Size
> Size        : 942088

$ rpm -qi nfs-utils|grep ^Size
Size        : 1243512
$ echo $((374573+942088))
1316661

So, they're a little bigger than nfs-utils, taken together.  Like you
say, under development, probably there's just something overlooked that
could be removed from one or the other or moved to an nfs-common
package.

That might make a case for splitting up client and server sides for
minimal installs that need only one or the other.

If it's installed size we're working on, though, do we have some target
in mind here, though?  Do we know what the container people are aiming
for?  I had some idea glic is more in the 10s of megabytes, and a
minimal Fedora install is in the 100s, so I just wonder if it's worth
chasing after 10s-100s of K.

--b.