ldm_get_vblks(9)

💖 ldm_get_vblks(9) 💖

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s all about reading the on-disk database of VBLKs into memory, bestie ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ldm_get_vblks — Read the on-disk database of VBLKs into memory 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ldm_get_vblks (struct parsed_partitions *state , unsigned long base
       , struct ldmdb *ldb );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• state — Partition check state including device holding the LDM Database. It’s giving “where the database lives” energy 👑
• base — Offset, into state->disk, of the database. Literally the spot in the disk, iykyk 💅
• ldb — Cache of the database structures. The lil home for the cached db stuff 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, to actually use the information from the VBLKs, they gotta be read from the disk, unpacked, and validated first — no shortcuts, bestie 💅. Then we cache them in ldb according to their type, and that’s the whole vibe.

😭 RETURN 😭

okay so this section is literally blank in the original — no return value details, no nothing. The synopsis does say bool, but the page doesn’t explain what comes back, bestie 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./block/partitions/ldm.c
• ldm_parse_privhead(9)
• ldm_parse_tocblock(9)
• ldm_parse_vmdb(9)
• ldm_compare_privheads(9)
• ldm_compare_tocblocks(9)
• ldm_validate_privheads(9)
• ldm_validate_tocblocks(9)
• ldm_validate_vmdb(9)
• ldm_validate_partition_table(9)
• ldm_get_disk_objid(9)
• ldm_create_data_partitions(9)
• ldm_relative(9)
• ldm_get_vnum(9)
• ldm_get_vstr(9)
• ldm_parse_cmp3(9)
• ldm_parse_dgr3(9)
• ldm_parse_dgr4(9)
• ldm_parse_dsk3(9)
• ldm_parse_dsk4(9)
• ldm_parse_prt3(9)
• ldm_parse_vol5(9)
• ldm_parse_vblk(9)
• ldm_ldmdb_add(9)
• ldm_frag_add(9)
• ldm_frag_free(9)
• ldm_frag_commit(9)
• ldm_free_vblks(9)
• ldm_partition(9)

made with 💖 from source/version ./block/partitions, dated October 2026 — mwah, bestie 💅✨