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From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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Subject: Re: A Third perspective on BTRFS nfsd subvol dev/inode number issues.
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 02:18:29PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> For btrfs, the "location" is root.objectid ++ file.objectid.  I think
> the inode should become (file.objectid ^ swab64(root.objectid)).  This
> will provide numbers that are unique until you get very large subvols,
> and very many subvols.

If you snapshot a filesystem, I'd expect, at least by default, that
inodes in the snapshot to stay the same as in the snapshotted
filesystem.

--b.