VFS_ROOT(9)

VFS_ROOT9

Return the root vnode of a file system

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/mount.h>

#include <sys/vnode.h>

int

VFS_ROOT(struct mount *mp, int flags, struct vnode **vpp);

Overview

Return a locked vnode for the root directory of the file system.

Its arguments are:

mp

The file system.

flags

The lock type. Could be LK_EXCLUSIVE or LK_SHARED. File system is free to ignore the flags argument and instead acquire an exclusive lock.

vpp

Return parameter for the root vnode.

Releases

83 releases since FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE; the text changed 40 times.

  1. 2.2.2–2.2.8
  2. 2.2.9
  3. 3.0–3.2
  4. 3.3–3.5.1
  5. 4.0–4.4
  6. 4.5–4.11
  7. 5.0–5.1
  8. 5.2–5.2.1
  9. 5.3–6.3
  10. 6.4
  11. 7.0
  12. 7.1
  13. 7.2
  14. 7.3
  15. 7.4
  16. 8.0
  17. 8.1
  18. 8.2
  19. 8.3
  20. 8.4
  21. 9.0
  22. 9.1
  23. 9.2
  24. 9.3
  25. 10.0
  26. 10.1
  27. 10.2
  28. 10.3
  29. 10.4
  30. 11.0
  31. 11.1
  32. 11.2
  33. 11.3
  34. 11.4
  35. 12.0
  36. 12.1
  37. 12.2
  38. 12.3
  39. 12.4
  40. 13.0–13.2
  41. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.