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From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry into inotify_inode_mark
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:50:55 +0000
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To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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On Wednesday 14 November 2012 13:38:49 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:20:51AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 November 2012 19:28:46 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:02:22PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > > > Perhaps there could be a different way, where you could use additional
> > > > space only when it is actually used at runtime. But as I said, I am
> > > > not
> > > > following closely.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunatelly at moment I see no way how to make it in on-demand
> > > fashion.
> > 
> > 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? 
Couldn't you restore, creating a new restore path if needed, using the inode 
which is pinned anyway while the watch exists?

Regards,

Tvrtko