nilfs_palloc_groups_count(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 nilfs_palloc_groups_count — get maximum number of groups 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for nilfs_palloc_groups_count(9) ✨ this one is short and sweet and honestly kind of iconic for it — it tells you the maximum number of groups for a metadata file that's using this allocator. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

unsigned long nilfs_palloc_groups_count (const struct inode *inode );

like, you hand it an inode and it hands you back an unsigned long. simple as that, periodt. 💅

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • inode — the inode of the metadata file that's using this allocator 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument list, she's low-maintenance.

🌸 RETURN 🌸

Returns the maximum number of groups. literally what it says on the tin, bestie — no surprises, no plot twists, just the max group count. 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file lives at ./fs/nilfs2/alloc.c and honestly the whole friend group shows up here, so let's do the roll call 🎀:

ngl bestie, this whole page is like three facts and a dream, but you got all of them 💀 every single one. slay. 🍓

and that's a wrap!! 🧚 this lil page came out of ./fs/nilfs2 in October 2026, straight from the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go read some source code, ily, bye 💜✨🎀

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