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 netfs_library 57 58Filesystems 59=========== 60 61Documentation for filesystem implementations. 62 63.. toctree:: 64 :maxdepth: 2 65 66 9p 67 adfs 68 affs 69 afs 70 autofs 71 autofs-mount-control 72 befs 73 bfs 74 btrfs 75 cifs/cifsroot 76 ceph 77 coda 78 configfs 79 cramfs 80 dax 81 debugfs 82 dlmfs 83 ecryptfs 84 efivarfs 85 erofs 86 ext2 87 ext3 88 ext4/index 89 f2fs 90 gfs2 91 gfs2-uevents 92 gfs2-glocks 93 hfs 94 hfsplus 95 hpfs 96 fuse 97 fuse-io 98 inotify 99 isofs 100 nilfs2 101 nfs/index 102 ntfs 103 ocfs2 104 ocfs2-online-filecheck 105 omfs 106 orangefs 107 overlayfs 108 proc 109 qnx6 110 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs 111 relay 112 romfs 113 spufs/index 114 squashfs 115 sysfs 116 sysv-fs 117 tmpfs 118 ubifs 119 ubifs-authentication 120 udf 121 virtiofs 122 vfat 123 xfs-delayed-logging-design 124 xfs-self-describing-metadata 125 zonefs 126