1.. _filesystems_index:
2
3===============================
4Filesystems in the Linux kernel
5===============================
6
7This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide
8comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer
9works, along with the filesystems that sit below it.  For now, what we have
10can be found below.
11
12Core VFS documentation
13======================
14
15See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its
16algorithms work.
17
18.. toctree::
19   :maxdepth: 2
20
21   vfs
22   path-lookup
23   api-summary
24   splice
25   locking
26   directory-locking
27   devpts
28   dnotify
29   fiemap
30   files
31   locks
32   mandatory-locking
33   mount_api
34   quota
35   seq_file
36   sharedsubtree
37
38   automount-support
39
40   caching/index
41
42   porting
43
44Filesystem support layers
45=========================
46
47Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
48filesystem implementations.
49
50.. toctree::
51   :maxdepth: 2
52
53   journalling
54   fscrypt
55   fsverity
56
57Filesystems
58===========
59
60Documentation for filesystem implementations.
61
62.. toctree::
63   :maxdepth: 2
64
65   9p
66   adfs
67   affs
68   afs
69   autofs
70   autofs-mount-control
71   befs
72   bfs
73   btrfs
74   cifs/cifsroot
75   ceph
76   coda
77   configfs
78   cramfs
79   debugfs
80   dlmfs
81   ecryptfs
82   efivarfs
83   erofs
84   ext2
85   ext3
86   f2fs
87   gfs2
88   gfs2-uevents
89   gfs2-glocks
90   hfs
91   hfsplus
92   hpfs
93   fuse
94   fuse-io
95   inotify
96   isofs
97   nilfs2
98   nfs/index
99   ntfs
100   ocfs2
101   ocfs2-online-filecheck
102   omfs
103   orangefs
104   overlayfs
105   proc
106   qnx6
107   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
108   relay
109   romfs
110   spufs/index
111   squashfs
112   sysfs
113   sysv-fs
114   tmpfs
115   ubifs
116   ubifs-authentication.rst
117   udf
118   virtiofs
119   vfat
120   xfs-delayed-logging-design
121   xfs-self-describing-metadata
122   zonefs
123