ubifs_bg_wbufs_sync(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to ubifs_bg_wbufs_sync(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this one is here to synchronize write-buffers. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the signature in all its main-character glory:

int ubifs_bg_wbufs_sync (struct ubifs_info *c );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — UBIFS file-system description object. literally the UBIFS file-system description object, bestie 🦋

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so this function is called by a background thread to synchronize write-buffers. it’s giving background-thread energy, fr fr. 🔥

it returns zero in case of success and a negative error code in case of failure. so yeah — zero is the success slay ✨, negative is the failure 😭. no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/io.c — plus the whole squad, iykyk:

• ubifs_ro_mode(9)
• ubifs_check_node(9)
• ubifs_pad(9)
• next_sqnum(9)
• ubifs_prepare_node_hmac(9)
• ubifs_prepare_node(9)
• ubifs_prep_grp_node(9)
• wbuf_timer_callback_nolock(9)
• new_wbuf_timer_nolock(9)
• cancel_wbuf_timer_nolock(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_sync_nolock(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock(9)
• ubifs_write_node_hmac(9)
• ubifs_write_node(9)
• ubifs_read_node_wbuf(9)
• ubifs_read_node(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_init(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_add_ino_nolock(9)
• wbuf_has_ino(9)
• ubifs_sync_wbufs_by_inode(9)

xoxo, bestie 💖 — signing off with source/version ./fs/ubifs and date October 2026. mwah 🫶🎀