On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:19:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
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> What about unifying the file identification here with the file handle used for open_by_handle()?  That keeps a consistent identifier for the inode between multiple system calls (always a good thing), and allows the inode to be opened again via open_by_handle() if needed.

That's what the dmapi callouts that are intendeded to do just about the
same as fanotify always did.  I'm pretty sure I brought this up earlier
in the discussion.
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