gfs2_inode_metasync(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so this is gfs2_inode_metasync(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and its whole job is: sync out the metadata of an inode. ✨ That's the tea. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int gfs2_inode_metasync (struct gfs2_glock *gl );

copy that signature exactly, bestie — no renaming, no “fixing,” no cap. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• gl — the glock protecting the inode. 🫶 That's the one and only argument, and it's giving main character energy. 👑

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/glops.c, and the whole squad is:

• __gfs2_ail_flush(9)
• gfs2_rgrp_metasync(9)
• rgrp_go_sync(9)
• rgrp_go_inval(9)
• inode_go_sync(9)
• inode_go_inval(9)
• gfs2_inode_refresh(9)
• inode_go_instantiate(9)
• inode_go_dump(9)
• freeze_go_callback(9)
• freeze_go_xmote_bh(9)
• iopen_go_callback(9)

and that's the page, periodt. this lil manual-page moment is from source/version ./fs/gfs2, dated October 2026, and it's the gfs2_inode_metasync(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. 🎀💖✨