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6 ext4 reserves some inode for special features, as follows:
15 - Doesn't exist; there is no inode 0.
17 - List of defective blocks.
29 - Reserved group descriptors inode. (“resize inode”)
33 - The “exclude” inode, for snapshots(?)
35 - Replica inode, used for some non-upstream feature?
37 - Traditional first non-reserved inode. Usually this is the lost+found directory. See s_first_ino in the superblock.
39 Note that there are also some inodes allocated from non-reserved inode numbers
40 for other filesystem features which are not referenced from standard directory
41 hierarchy. These are generally reference from the superblock. They are:
51 - Inode number of lost+found directory.
53 - Inode number of quota file tracking project quotas
54 * - s_orphan_file_inum
55 - Inode number of file tracking orphan inodes.