ubifs_zn_obsolete(9)

🌸 ubifs_zn_obsolete(9) 🌸

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — literally the kernel docs, but make it make sense 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ubifs_zn_obsolete — check if znode is obsolete.

yes that's the whole job. she's a vibe check for znodes, that's it, that's the function 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ubifs_zn_obsolete (const struct ubifs_znode *znode );

like look at her. int return, one const pointer argument, no drama, no cap 🎀

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• znode — the znode to check. that's the one you're asking about, bestie. the main character of this whole operation 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this helper function returns 1 if znode is obsolete and 0 otherwise.

that's it. binary. iconic. no in-between, no "it depends", no situationship — she is either obsolete or she is not 💀

think of it as the simplest possible answer to the simplest possible question, and honestly? we love a function with zero baggage 🌈

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, fr fr — all of these live in the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/misc.h:

• ubifs_zn_dirty(9)
• ubifs_zn_cow(9)
• ubifs_wake_up_bgt(9)
• ubifs_tnc_find_child(9)
• ubifs_inode(9)
• ubifs_compr_present(9)
• ubifs_compr_name(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)

go read them all, i'll wait 🧚

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and that's the page!! no bugs noted, no warnings, no exit statuses, just a clean little helper doing her one thing 🦋

mwah 💋 — this came out of ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's ubifs_zn_obsolete(9) signing off. slay, bye! 🎀✨