ubifs_mount_orphans(9)

🎀 ubifs_mount_orphans(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, and buckle up because this one is a cleanup-crew baddie 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ubifs_mount_orphans — delete orphan inodes and erase LEBs that recorded them. literally the "take out the trash on the way in" function 🗑️✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ubifs_mount_orphans (struct ubifs_info *c , int unclean , int read_only );

like, that's the whole signature, no cap 🫶

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⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. your main character struct, the one carrying all the context 👑
• unclean — indicates recovery from an unclean unmount. yes, the messy kind 🙈
• read_only — indicates a read only mount. look, don't touch energy 🧚

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So this function gets called when you're mounting, and its whole job is to erase orphans from the previous session. That's it, that's the vibe. 🎀

And if UBIFS was not unmounted cleanly, then the inodes recorded as orphans are deleted. not me showing up to mount and immediately doing a little housekeeping 😭🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/orphan.c — and honestly the whole orphan.c friend group, they all show up together:

• ubifs_add_orphan(9)
• ubifs_delete_orphan(9)
• ubifs_orphan_start_commit(9)
• avail_orphs(9)
• tot_avail_orphs(9)
• do_write_orph_node(9)
• write_orph_node(9)
• write_orph_nodes(9)
• consolidate(9)
• commit_orphans(9)
• erase_deleted(9)
• ubifs_orphan_end_commit(9)
• ubifs_clear_orphans(9)
• do_kill_orphans(9)
• kill_orphans(9)

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💖 and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and mount cleanly (or not, the function handles it fr fr)

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sign-off time 🫶✨ this one came from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's ubifs_mount_orphans(9) — slay, bye 💅🎀