scan_for_dirty(9)

💾 scan_for_dirty(9) 💾

okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual entry for scan_for_dirty(9), and it’s giving “we search the UBIFS streets for a data LEB with room to breathe.” ✨ No cap, let’s get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

scan_for_dirty — find a data LEB with free space.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const struct ubifs_lprops * scan_for_dirty (struct ubifs_info *c , int
       min_space , int pick_free , int exclude_index );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. Main character struct energy, honestly. 👑
• min_space — the minimum amount of free plus dirty space the returned LEB has to have. Like, the bare minimum, bestie.
• pick_free — if it is OK to return a free or freeable LEB. 👀
• exclude_index — whether to exclude index LEBs. Periodt.

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

This function returns a pointer to the LEB properties found or a negative error code. That’s the whole plot — pointer if it found the vibe, negative error code if not. 💅

Bestie vibe check: it’s literally “pointer to the LEB properties found or a negative error code,” no extra lore. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/find.c, struct scan_data(9), valuable(9), scan_for_dirty_cb(9), ubifs_find_dirty_leb(9), scan_for_free_cb(9), do_find_free_space(9), ubifs_find_free_space(9), scan_for_idx_cb(9), scan_for_leb_for_idx(9), ubifs_find_free_leb_for_idx(9), ubifs_save_dirty_idx_lnums(9), scan_dirty_idx_cb(9), find_dirty_idx_leb(9), get_idx_gc_leb(9), find_dirtiest_idx_leb(9), ubifs_find_dirty_idx_leb(9).

source/version: ./fs/ubifs; date: October 2026. Mwah 💋🫶