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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 13:32:28 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 13:29:12 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> > 
> > IOW, the inode_permission() in lookup_one_len() that eventfs does is
> > redundant and just wrong.  
> 
> I don't think so.

Just to make it clear. eventfs has nothing to do with mkdir instance/foo.
It exists without that. Although one rationale to do eventfs was so
that the instance directories wouldn't recreate the same 10thousands
event inodes and dentries for every mkdir done.

-- Steve