From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Btrfs: New inode number allocator
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:15:58 -0400
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To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Excerpts from Li Zefan's message of 2011-04-25 04:57:47 -0400:
> Currently btrfs stores the highest objectid of the fs tree, and it always
> returns (highest+1) inode number when we create a file, so inode numbers
> won't be reclaimed when we delete files, so we'll run out of inode numbers
> as we keep create/delete files in 32bits machines.
> 
> This patchset aims to fix this, and it works similar to free space caching
> for block groups.
> 
> I've run xfstests, and I also tested it with snapshot, balance etc.
> 
> More testing is appreciated!
> 
> Changelog v2:
> 
> - Rebased against latest btrfs-unstable tree
> - Fixed several small bugs.

Great, is this pullable from somewhere?

-chris