On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:50:55AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > > You could not use a pointer and then allocate your buffers on the check > > > point operation, freeing on restore? > > > > The problem is not allocating the memory itself but rather the time when the > > information needed (ie the dentry) is available. The only moment when we > > can use dentry of the target file/directory is at inotify_new_watch, that's > > why i need to compose fhandle that early. At any later point we simply have > > no dentry to use. > > But you do not fundamentally need the dentry to restore a watch, right? dentry only needed to encode the file handle. > Couldn't you restore, creating a new restore path if needed, using the inode > which is pinned anyway while the watch exists? plain inode is not enough as far as i can tell, iow i don't see the way to restore path from inode solely. or there something i miss? Cyrill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
