From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754320AbYKLQ7A (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:59:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751537AbYKLQ6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:51 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:51739 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751610AbYKLQ6u (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:21 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Eric Paris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, malware-list@lists.printk.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, greg@kroah.com, tytso@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH =-v3 07/21] fanotify: fastpath to ignore certain in core inodes Message-ID: <20081112165820.GA26217@infradead.org> References: <20081112161002.25434.82358.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20081112161103.25434.30104.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> <20081112165055.GB19669@infradead.org> <20081112165638.54c38c5c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081112165638.54c38c5c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:56:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Sounds a good way of ruining the performance. I don't think you can ruine performance of a system with AV systems running even more. While bloating the inode does cause enormous problems in file serving or other extremly metadata intensive workloads.