reconfigure_super(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to reconfigure_super(9) from the Kernel API Manual — it's giving “filesystem glow-up but make it kernel,” and honestly? obsessed. ✨💅

💖 NAME 💖

reconfigure_super — asks filesystem to change superblock parameters. periodt. 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int reconfigure_super (struct fs_context *fc );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fc — the superblock and configuration. That's the whole package, bestie: the superblock and the configuration. 🎀✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It alters the configuration parameters of a live superblock. That's literally the whole plot — a live superblock getting its configuration parameters altered, no extra lore, no secret side quest. 💖🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./fs/super.c — plus the whole iconic friend group:

• super_lock(9)
• alloc_super(9)
• deactivate_locked_super(9)
• deactivate_super(9)
• grab_super(9)
• retire_super(9)
• generic_shutdown_super(9)
• sget_fc(9)
• iterate_supers_type(9)
• emergency_thaw_all(9)
• get_anon_bdev(9)
• sget_dev(9)
• fs_bdev_freeze(9)
• fs_bdev_thaw(9)
• fs_bdev_file_open_by_dev(9)
• fs_bdev_file_open_by_path(9)
• fs_bdev_unregister(9)
• fs_bdev_file_release(9)
• get_tree_bdev_flags(9)
• get_tree_bdev(9)
• vfs_get_tree(9)
• sb_wait_write(9)
• freeze_super(9)
• thaw_super(9)

mwah 💋 — this cutie's source path is ./fs, its date stamp is October 2026, and the page is reconfigure_super(9). byeee, stay slay! 🌈💜