exportfs_encode_inode_fh(9)

💅 exportfs_encode_inode_fh(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual bestie ✨

okay so this is exportfs_encode_inode_fh, and she's the one who turns an inode into a file handle. no cap, that's the whole gig 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

exportfs_encode_inode_fh — encode a file handle from inode 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int exportfs_encode_inode_fh (struct inode *inode , struct fid *fid ,
int *max_len , struct inode *parent , int flags );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• inode — the object you're encoding, the main character of this whole operation 👑
• fid — literally where the file handle fragment goes to live 🏠
• max_len — the maximum length you're allowed to store there, respect the limit bestie 🙈
• parent — the parent directory inode, but only if wanted 💫
• flags — the properties of the file handle you're requesting, iykyk ⭐

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

So she returns an enum fid_type or a negative errno. that's it, that's the vibe check 💀✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./fs/exportfs/expfs.c — get_name(9) 🫶
• exportfs_encode_ino64_fid(9) 💜
• exportfs_encode_fh(9) 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — shipped from ./fs/exportfs, dated October 2026, and yes she ate 💅🎀 periodt ✨