make_bad_inode(9)

💅 make_bad_inode — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, listen, this one's a little heartbreaker but it's important, so buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

make_bad_inode — mark an inode bad due to an I/O error

like literally, it's the "this one's gone, bestie" function 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void make_bad_inode (struct inode *inode );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — the Inode to mark bad. yes that's the whole argument. it's giving minimal, it's giving "one job", and honestly? we respect it 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the situation: when an inode cannot be read due to a media or remote network failure, this function is the one that steps in and makes the inode "bad". periodt.

And once it's been marked bad like that? I/O operations on it fail from this point on. no take-backs, no redo, it's done 🔥

ngl the whole vibe here is "the data is not coming back, stop asking" 😭

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./fs/bad_inode.c
• is_bad_inode(9)
• iget_failed(9)

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✨ and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap ✨

this iconic little entry lives in the Kernel API Manual, comes from ./fs, and was dated October 2026 🎀📅