erase_deleted(9)

🌈 erase_deleted(9) 🌈

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this page is erase_deleted(9), and it's lowkey the cleanup crew for orphan vibes ✨ no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

erase_deleted — erase the orphans marked for deletion. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void erase_deleted (struct ubifs_info *c );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object, iykyk 💖

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so picture it: during commit, the orphans being committed cannot be deleted, so they get marked for deletion and then this function deletes them. literally her whole job 💀

also, the recovery adds killed orphans to the deletion list, and therefore they are deleted here too. so yeah, she's catching those too 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/orphan.c — plus 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)
• commit_orphans(9)
• ubifs_orphan_end_commit(9)
• ubifs_clear_orphans(9)
• do_kill_orphans(9)
• kill_orphans(9)
• ubifs_mount_orphans(9)

cute sign-off: source/version is ./fs/ubifs, date is October 2026 — and erase_deleted(9) is out here deleting the marked-for-deletion orphans so you don't have to 💖✨🎀