ubifs_compr_name(9)

🌸 ubifs_compr_name — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 🌸

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the star of the show is ubifs_compr_name(9). yes it's a section 9 page, yes it's kernel internals, no you don't have to be scared 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ubifs_compr_name — get the compressor name string by its type. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic minimalism 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * ubifs_compr_name (struct ubifs_info *c , int compr_type );

like literally just hand it the fs info and a compressor type and it comes back with a const char *. slay.

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. your whole fs vibe in one struct, ngl.
• compr_type — the compressor type. the little number that tells us which compression situation we're in 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

this function returns the compressor type string. that's the entire description, bestie — it's short, it's sweet, it ate and left no crumbs 💖 you give it a compr_type, it gives you back the string. no cap.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

all the sibling functions living rent-free in ./fs/ubifs/misc.h — go say hi to the whole friend group 🫶

• ubifs_zn_dirty(9)
• ubifs_zn_obsolete(9)
• ubifs_zn_cow(9)
• ubifs_wake_up_bgt(9)
• ubifs_tnc_find_child(9)
• ubifs_inode(9)
• ubifs_compr_present(9)
• ubifs_wbuf_sync(9)
• ubifs_encode_dev(9)
• ubifs_add_dirt(9)
• ubifs_return_leb(9)
• ubifs_idx_node_sz(9)
• ubifs_idx_branch(9)
• ubifs_idx_key(9)
• ubifs_tnc_lookup(9)
• ubifs_get_lprops(9)
• ubifs_release_lprops(9)
• ubifs_next_log_lnum(9)

fr fr go read the source at ./fs/ubifs/misc.h if you want the deep lore 👑

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and that's the page!! courtesy of ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026 — stay compressed, stay iconic, mwah 💋💜