destroy_journal(9)

💅 destroy_journal(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie

okay so picture this: it's a manual page, it's section 9, it's destroy_journal, and it's literally about to tear the journal down. main character energy fr fr 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

destroy_journal — destroys journal data structures. yes that's the whole job. she's a one-line icon and she ate 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void destroy_journal (struct ubifs_info *c );

that's it. no return value, no drama, just vibes and destruction (the good, cleanup kind) ✨

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🫶 lowkey the whole context of the operation, she's holding everything together while stuff gets torn down

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this function destroys journal data structures 💀 and honestly the important bit is the fine print: it also destroys the ones that may have been created by recovery functions. like, not just the fresh ones — the recovery leftovers get got too. no cap, it's a full sweep 🧹✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kernel file ./fs/ubifs/super.c, plus the whole friend group 💜:

• validate_inode(9)
• init_constants_early(9)
• bud_wbuf_callback(9)
• take_gc_lnum(9)
• alloc_wbufs(9)
• free_wbufs(9)
• free_orphans(9)
• free_buds(9)
• check_volume_empty(9)
• ubifs_parse_param(9)
• bu_init(9)
• check_free_space(9)
• mount_ubifs(9)
• ubifs_umount(9)
• ubifs_remount_rw(9)
• ubifs_remount_ro(9)
• open_ubi(9)

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ngl if you're reading destroy_journal(9) you're probably already deep in fs/ubifs and honestly? respect. 🫡

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and that's the page babes 🌈 this one lives in ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's destroy_journal(9) — go off, clean up those journal data structures, periodt 💖✨🎀