gfs2_lookupi(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this page is gfs2_lookupi(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally here to look up a filename in a directory and return its inode ✨. bestie, that's the whole vibe 🫶.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct inode * gfs2_lookupi (struct inode *dir , const struct qstr *name
       , int is_root );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • dir — the inode of the directory containing the inode to look-up 🌸
  • name — the name of the inode to look for 🎀
  • is_root — if it's 1, ignore the caller's permissions 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this can be called via the VFS filldir function when NFS is doing a readdirplus and the inode which it's intending to stat isn't already in cache 🦋. In this case we must not take the directory glock again, since the readdir call will have already taken that lock. no cap, that's the whole point 💅.

⚠️ do not take that directory glock again — the readdir call already took it, and that's literally the rule 🙈.

🔥 RETURN 🔥

the return is errno — that's it, that's the whole return bestie 💀.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/inode.c — and the whole squad is right here:

byeee bestie 🫶 — source/version: ./fs/gfs2, date: October 2026, page: gfs2_lookupi(9) 💅🌈

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