nilfs_dat_move(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, this is the nilfs_dat_move(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ and it’s honestly giving “tiny function, very specific job” energy 💅

💖 NAME 💖

nilfs_dat_move — change a block number 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int nilfs_dat_move (struct inode *dat , __u64 vblocknr , sector_t
blocknr );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dat — DAT file inode 💖
  • vblocknr — virtual block number ✨
  • blocknr — block number 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, nilfs_dat_move changes the block number associated with vblocknr to blocknr. That’s the whole main-character move, no cap 💫

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success — slay 🎉 On failure, you get one of these negative error codes:

  • -EIO — I/O error (including metadata corruption) 😭
  • -ENOMEM — insufficient memory available 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/dat.c, struct nilfs_dat_info(9), nilfs_dat_mark_dirty(9), nilfs_dat_freev(9), nilfs_dat_translate(9), nilfs_dat_read(9) — go peek at these, iykyk 👀✨

xoxo, from ./fs/nilfs2, dated October 2026, for nilfs_dat_move(9) — Kernel API Manual bestie signing off 💖🎀✨

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