nilfs_fill_super(9)

✨ nilfs_fill_super(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for nilfs_fill_super(9) 💅 this one is short, sweet, and highkey iconic — let’s get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

nilfs_fill_super — initialize a super block instance 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int nilfs_fill_super (struct super_block *sb , struct fs_context *fc );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sb — super_block.
• fc — filesystem context.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this function is called exclusively by nilfs->ns_mount_mutex. So, the recovery process is protected from other simultaneous mounts. no cap, that’s the whole vibe 🫶

🔥 RETURN 🔥

0 on success, or a negative error code on failure. periodt 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/super.c — also peep __nilfs_error(9), nilfs_cleanup_super(9), nilfs_move_2nd_super(9), nilfs_resize_fs(9), and nilfs_tree_is_busy(9) 🦋

signed off from ./fs/nilfs2, dated October 2026, for nilfs_fill_super(9) — bye bestie, go mount something cute 💖