ubifs_start_scan(9)

✨ ubifs_start_scan(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a whole function from the UBIFS world and it's literally the opening act of a scan, iykyk 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ubifs_start_scan — bestie, this creates the LEB scanning information at the start of a scan. that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct ubifs_scan_leb * ubifs_start_scan (const struct ubifs_info *c ,
int lnum , int offs , void *sbuf );

like, look at it. iconic signature. no cap. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object 🗂️ like, the whole personality of the filesystem lives here
• lnum — the logical eraseblock number, aka which LEB we're pulling up on 🔢
• offs — the offset to start at (usually zero, fr fr, most of the time it's just 0 and we move on) 📍
• sbuf — the scan buffer, and listen: it must be c->leb_size — not vibes-based, it's a hard requirement, don't come at me with a smaller buffer 😭

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the way this works: this function returns the scanned information on success ✨ and a negative error code on failure 💀. that's it, that's the deal. slay.

ngl, negative error code on failure is not a drill — check your return value, bestie, she's telling you something 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/scan.c
• scan_padding_bytes(9)
• ubifs_scan_a_node(9)
• ubifs_end_scan(9)
• ubifs_add_snod(9)
• ubifs_scanned_corruption(9)
• ubifs_scan(9)
• ubifs_scan_destroy(9)

like, the whole scan friend group 🫶 go read them too, they all ate 💅

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 sourced from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026 — go forth and scan responsibly, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️