STRUCT NILFS_IGET_ARGS(9)

💖 struct nilfs_iget_args(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the struct nilfs_iget_args(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes it's a mouthful, no I will not be pronouncing it out loud. This lil' struct is basically the receipts you hand over when the kernel needs to compare inodes, and honestly? iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

struct nilfs_iget_args — literally just the arguments used during comparison between inodes 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the whole vibe, exactly as written, no cap:

struct nilfs_iget_args {
    u64 ino;
    __u64 cno;
    struct nilfs_root *root;
    unsigned int type;
 };

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🎀 Members 🎀

okay so let's meet the squad, one field at a time 💅

• ino — the inode number. that's it, that's the whole thing. it's the ino, she's the main character 👑
• cno — the checkpoint number. yes, checkpoint, like a save point in your fave game 🎮
• root — a pointer on NILFS root object (mounted checkpoint). note that it's a pointer, bestie, so it pts at the actual root object, she does not contain it ✨
• type — the inode type. literally what kind of inode we're dealing with, standard unsigned int behaviour 🦋

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

more reading if you're obsessed and wanna go deeper, all in Kernel file ./fs/nilfs2/inode.c 📚:

• nilfs_get_block(9)
• nilfs_read_folio(9)
• nilfs_attach_btree_node_cache(9)
• nilfs_detach_btree_node_cache(9)
• nilfs_iget_for_shadow(9)
• nilfs_write_inode_common(9)
• nilfs_dirty_inode(9)

go read them, iykyk 😌

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mwah — that's it from ./fs/nilfs2, dated October 2026, and the page itself is struct nilfs_iget_args(9) all over again (yes, the footer says the same thing as the header, she's consistent like that 💖). stay slay, stay mounted, periodt 🌈⭐