ecryptfs_statfs(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ecryptfs_statfs — from the Kernel API Manual ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to the ecryptfs_statfs(9) page 🎀 this whole thing lives in the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's a short one. a little snack. but we're gonna read it properly because every detail matters, periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ecryptfs_statfs —

and yeah, the description after the dash is genuinely just... empty 😭 the original page leaves it blank, so we're leaving it blank too. no cap, that's the whole NAME section. iconic of it, honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ecryptfs_statfs (struct dentry *dentry , struct kstatfs *buf );

it returns an int, and it takes two args: a struct dentry * called dentry, and a struct kstatfs * called buf. that's the vibe check for the signature, fr fr 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dentry — the ecryptfs dentry 🫶 that's it, that's the whole description, she's lowkey minimal.
  • buf — the struct kstatfs you're filling in with the stats ✨ like, you hand it a buffer, it hands you stats. teamwork, bestie.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

ok so the actual job: get the filesystem statistics 📊 that's the mission.

and here's the thing — currently, we just let this pass right through to the lower filesystem and take no action ourselves 🚪💨 like, we're not doing any extra work up here, no special sauce, no extra steps. it just goes straight on down. main character energy is the lower filesystem, we're literally just the doorway.

no guessing beyond that, bestie — that's exactly what the page says and I'm not adding anything 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go look at the kernel file ./fs/ecryptfs/super.c 🌈 and also these three:

the whole inode friend group, honestly 😭 obsessed with them all being listed together.

ok that's genuinely the whole page 💀 she's tiny but she's doing her best.

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this lil number comes from ./fs/ecryptfs, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ecryptfs_statfs(9) — catch you on the next one! 💖✨🌸

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