consolidate(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to consolidate(9) from the Kernel API Manual — and it's literally here to consolidate the orphan area. That's the whole name vibe: consolidate — consolidate the orphan area. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int consolidate (struct ubifs_info *c );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• c — UBIFS file-system description object. (yes, that's the one you pass in, bestie)

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so what does it actually do? This function enables consolidation by putting all the orphans into the list to commit. The list is in the order that the orphans were added, and the LEBs are written atomically in order, so at no time can orphans be lost by an unclean unmount. That's the safety slay, no cap. 🦋

the whole point: at no time can orphans be lost by an unclean unmount. iconic behavior, honestly.

This function returns 0 on success and a negative error code on failure. so like, check that return value, bestie — 0 is the good ending, negative is the "nope" ending. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/orphan.c — the whole squad is:

• 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)
• commit_orphans(9)
• erase_deleted(9)
• ubifs_orphan_end_commit(9)
• ubifs_clear_orphans(9)
• do_kill_orphans(9)
• kill_orphans(9)
• ubifs_mount_orphans(9)

xoxo, your Unix bestie signing off from ./fs/ubifs — October 2026 💖✨