Re: newbie question about inode numbers

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> the inode number is an "unsigned long" which on a 32 bit system may be merely 32 bits, yet btrfs allows a full 64 bits of files in a file system (which is impossible; but ZFS allows 128 bits of files, which is just silly.)
> My question is, how are inode number collisions prevented on a 32-bit system, with a fs with five billion files?
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