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title: "tmpfs and inode collisions"
title: "tmpfs inode corruption and the birth of inode64"
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A few months ago I got a report from a service owner that their service was
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us to catch these cases when they happen and print a warning for the system
administrator to act on, suggesting to move to inode64.

Arch Linux also [moved to enable this by
default](https://twitter.com/unixchris/status/1374081759181205506) from kernel
5.9-ARCH onwards, which means this feature has been tested widely on real
workloads. Thanks, Arch folks!

In conclusion:

- This issue has likely been the root cause of a non-trivial number of
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