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

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>]

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.