Absolutely, avoiding gathering the facts in the first place is preferable. However, in terms of performance I would say that the overhead of gathering the facts is minimal compared with the effect that those facts have in slowing down subsequent tasks. Mark
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 16:30, Brian Coca <bc...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I was not going to use 'filter' for that since this is an 'after > gathering' feature, but a more 'proactive' ignore capability for each > subsystem, filter just removes the transmission of the data back to > the controller, not the actual gathering of it. > > The issue with ignore, it is very dependant on the method/code used to > do the gathering, which can vary by platform, OS, distro, distro > version, etc. I have not found a good way to handle that yet. > > ---------- > Brian Coca > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/CAFHSqWpEdWXZSqTaytHmwsfKTjR4OAOGVxhp%2Bq8PHEjwGXQ33w%40mail.gmail.com.
