| .. _filesystems_index: |
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| =============================== |
| Filesystems in the Linux kernel |
| =============================== |
| |
| This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide |
| comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer |
| works, along with the filesystems that sit below it. For now, what we have |
| can be found below. |
| |
| Core VFS documentation |
| ====================== |
| |
| See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its |
| algorithms work. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
| |
| vfs |
| path-lookup |
| api-summary |
| splice |
| locking |
| directory-locking |
| devpts |
| dnotify |
| fiemap |
| files |
| locks |
| mandatory-locking |
| mount_api |
| quota |
| seq_file |
| sharedsubtree |
| |
| automount-support |
| |
| caching/index |
| |
| porting |
| |
| Filesystem support layers |
| ========================= |
| |
| Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in |
| filesystem implementations. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
| |
| journalling |
| fscrypt |
| fsverity |
| |
| Filesystems |
| =========== |
| |
| Documentation for filesystem implementations. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
| |
| 9p |
| adfs |
| affs |
| afs |
| autofs |
| autofs-mount-control |
| befs |
| bfs |
| btrfs |
| cifs/cifsroot |
| ceph |
| coda |
| configfs |
| cramfs |
| debugfs |
| dlmfs |
| ecryptfs |
| efivarfs |
| erofs |
| ext2 |
| ext3 |
| f2fs |
| gfs2 |
| gfs2-uevents |
| gfs2-glocks |
| hfs |
| hfsplus |
| hpfs |
| fuse |
| fuse-io |
| inotify |
| isofs |
| nilfs2 |
| nfs/index |
| ntfs |
| ocfs2 |
| ocfs2-online-filecheck |
| omfs |
| orangefs |
| overlayfs |
| proc |
| qnx6 |
| ramfs-rootfs-initramfs |
| relay |
| romfs |
| spufs/index |
| squashfs |
| sysfs |
| sysv-fs |
| tmpfs |
| ubifs |
| ubifs-authentication.rst |
| udf |
| virtiofs |
| vfat |
| xfs-delayed-logging-design |
| xfs-self-describing-metadata |
| zonefs |
