gfs2_sync_fs(9)

💅 gfs2_sync_fs(9) — like, the whole Kernel API Manual vibe ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to gfs2_sync_fs(9) from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a real manual page and yes it's lowkey iconic 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gfs2_sync_fs — sync the filesystem, that's it, that's the whole job 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int gfs2_sync_fs (struct super_block *sb , int wait );

like, copy it exactly, don't @ me 😭

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• sb — the superblock, the main character of this whole situation 👑
• wait — true if you literally want to wait for completion, no cap ⏳

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Flushes the log to disk. periodt. it's giving "just do the thing and do it well" and honestly? obsessed 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./fs/gfs2/super.c is right there, bestie, go read it 👀 and also these iconic functions, in this exact order, no skips fr fr:

• gfs2_jindex_free(9)
• gfs2_make_fs_rw(9)
• gfs2_lock_fs_check_clean(9)
• gfs2_write_inode(9)
• gfs2_dirty_inode(9)
• gfs2_make_fs_ro(9)
• gfs2_put_super(9)
• gfs2_freeze_super(9)
• gfs2_thaw_super(9)
• statfs_slow_fill(9)
• gfs2_statfs_slow(9)
• gfs2_statfs_i(9)
• gfs2_statfs(9)
• gfs2_drop_inode(9)
• gfs2_show_options(9)
• gfs2_glock_put_eventually(9)
• evict_should_delete(9)
• evict_unlinked_inode(9)
• gfs2_evict_inode(9)

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ngl there are a lot of them but that's the list, every single one, iykyk 💀

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and that's the tea ☕ this page lives in ./fs/gfs2 and it's dated October 2026 — slay, see u then bestie 🧚‍♀️💖🎀