Re: [PATCH =-v3 07/21] fanotify: fastpath to ignore certain incore inodes

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:11:03AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> Allows a process to ignore certain events for the given in core inodes.
> This does not preclude the need to keep a userspace or xattr based
> cache if a fanotifier listener wants something with a different lifetime
> than in core inode.

Please just do this in userspace instead of bloating the inode.

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