How to move from samba to NFS?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Samba is using almost all ram on my dynalink wrx36 router, so i want to try to use NFS as it is less of a resource hog as i have read, to hopefully fix data writing errors i am getting on software i am using to constantly write to the drive.

Problem is that NFS does not have a luci interface...Is there somewhere a easy tutorial where someone shows mounting a usb drive? I am having trouble with the guide that can be found on the Openwrt docs.

It is a simple usb hard disk connected to the router itself (/dev/sda1), using the ext4 file system if i can believe samba.

Keeping the current data on the drive is preferred but not a hard nessacity.

Thanks for any assistance offered. Couldn't even find anything on youtube.

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Samba4 or ksmbd? The ladder is much lighter weight. You don't need a luci interface for nfs. It's simple to configure. Are you sure you won't lose functionality with clients making the switch?

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Oh another option? How does it compare in ram usage? I noticed my cpu isn't sweating at all from samba4 it now has.
I know nfs works fine on the system that needs it, other then that some ssh or windows access is enough.

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Personally I have a ksmbd share on a dump-ac and I don't find a degradation of performance
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dump-ac: fritbox 4040
share a ssd "Samsung Portable SSD T5"

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