write_orph_nodes(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to write_orph_nodes(9) — that's the page, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about one thing: writing orphan nodes until there are no more to commit. no notes. perfection. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int write_orph_nodes (struct ubifs_info *c , int atomic );

look at her. so clean. so powerful. 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. it's giving "your entire fs, in one struct" energy, and honestly? obsessed.
• atomic — write atomically. yes queen, all-or-nothing, no half-finished little messes 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: this function writes orphan nodes for all the orphans that need to commit. every single one. not "some of them", not "the cute ones" — all of them, fr fr.

and then the vibe check:

• on success 🎉 it returns 0
• otherwise 😭 it returns a negative error code — so like, go look at that, it's not okay and you should know about it

that's the whole function. short king. iconic. periodt. 👑

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the kernel file it lives in is ./fs/ubifs/orphan.c, and here's the whole friend group it runs with — group chat, if you will 💬

• 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)
• consolidate(9)
• commit_orphans(9)
• erase_deleted(9)
• ubifs_orphan_end_commit(9)
• ubifs_clear_orphans(9)
• do_kill_orphans(9)
• kill_orphans(9)
• ubifs_mount_orphans(9)

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okay that's the page!! it comes to you from ./fs/ubifs, dated October 2026, and it's titled write_orph_nodes(9) — go read ubifs_orphan_start_commit(9) next, i'm begging 🧚‍♀️✨💜