It's been deprecated since commit b547a88e ("btrfs: start
deprecation of mount option inode_cache") which enumerates the reasons.

A filesystem that uses the feature (mount -o inode_cache) tracks the
inode numbers in bitmaps, that data stay on the filesystem after this
patch. The size is roughly 5MiB for 1M inodes [1], which is considered
small enough to be left there. Removal of the change can be implemented
in btrfs-progs if needed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20201127145836.GZ6430@twin.jikos.cz/Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>