How to predict VMFS 6 inode numbers ?

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Does anybody know anything about the way that VMFS 6 uses to number inodes ?

As far as I know the inode numbers for the hidden .sf files always use the same numbers:

ls -iahl

4194308 -r--------    1 root     root       56.6M Jul 18 18:46 .fbb.sf

8388612 -r--------    1 root     root      128.6M Jul 18 18:46 .fdc.sf

33554436 -r--------    1 root     root      256.2M Jul 18 18:46 .jbc.sf

25165828 -r--------    1 root     root       16.1M Jul 18 18:46 .pb2.sf

12582916 -r--------    1 root     root       64.0K Jul 18 18:46 .pbc.sf

16777220 -r--------    1 root     root        1.0G Jul 18 18:46 .sbc.sf

29360132 drwx------    1 root     root       68.0K Jul 18 18:46 .sdd.sf

20971524 -r--------    1 root     root        7.0M Jul 18 18:46 .vh.sf

I would like to be able to predict the numbers that will be used for additional directories.

If you want to help - please list the inode numbers of a VMFS 6 volumes with lots of directories and files with the command

ls -ilhaR > inodes.txt

Thank you

Ulli