mainlining shenanigans
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Estimated time of removal of the functionality is 5.11, the option will
be still parsed but will have no effect.
Reasons for deprecation and removal:
- very poor naming choice of the mount option, it's supposed to cache
and reuse the inode _numbers_, but it sounds a some generic cache for
inodes
- the only known usecase where this option would make sense is on a
32bit architecture where inode numbers in one subvolume would be
exhausted due to 32bit inode::i_ino
- the cache is stored on disk, consumes space, needs to be loaded and
written back
- new inode number allocation is slower due to lookups into the cache
(compared to a simple increment which is the default)
- uses the free-space-cache code that is going to be deprecated as well
in the future
Known problems:
- since 2011, returning EEXIST when there's not enough space in a page
to store all checksums, see commit
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.