commit_orphans(9)

✨ commit_orphans(9) — the kernel API glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the commit_orphans(9) page 💅 this is a slice of the Kernel API Manual and honestly it's giving "small function, big responsibility" energy. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

commit_orphans — commit orphans. that's it. that's the whole name. iconic brevity fr fr 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int commit_orphans (struct ubifs_info *c );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🗂️ like, this is the whole file system's little info bundle, and you're handing it over so the function knows what it's working with.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what does it actually do? commit_orphans commits orphans to flash 💾🫶 that's the vibe. and it tells you how it went: on success, 0 is returned, otherwise a negative error code is returned 😭 so like, check your return value bestie, don't just assume it slayed.

ngl, "orphans" here is the filesystem-flavoured kind, not the sad-movie kind — it's UBIFS internals, and this function is the one doing the committing 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/orphan.c is where the magic lives, and here's the whole friend group 👯‍♀️💜:

• ubifs_add_orphan(9)
• ubifs_delete_orphan(9)
• ubifs_orphan_start_commit(9)
• avail_orphs(9)
• tot_avail_orphs(9)
• do_write_orph_node(9)
• write_orph_node(9)
• write_orph_nodes(9)
• consolidate(9)
• erase_deleted(9)
• ubifs_orphan_end_commit(9)
• ubifs_clear_orphans(9)
• do_kill_orphans(9)
• kill_orphans(9)
• ubifs_mount_orphans(9)

like, go read them too, they're all part of the same orphan.c storyline 🌟

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and that's the page!! 💅 tiny but mighty. this one dropped from ./fs/ubifs in October 2026 — so yeah, shoutout to that source and date, mwah 😘 slay, go commit some orphans (responsibly, check the error code) 🍓🦋💖