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   sysfs-pci
38   sysfs-tagging
39
40   automount-support
41
42   caching/index
43
44   porting
45
46Filesystem support layers
47=========================
48
49Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
50filesystem implementations.
51
52.. toctree::
53   :maxdepth: 2
54
55   journalling
56   fscrypt
57   fsverity
58
59Filesystems
60===========
61
62Documentation for filesystem implementations.
63
64.. toctree::
65   :maxdepth: 2
66
67   9p
68   adfs
69   affs
70   afs
71   autofs
72   autofs-mount-control
73   befs
74   bfs
75   btrfs
76   cifs/cifsroot
77   ceph
78   coda
79   configfs
80   cramfs
81   debugfs
82   dlmfs
83   ecryptfs
84   efivarfs
85   erofs
86   ext2
87   ext3
88   f2fs
89   gfs2
90   gfs2-uevents
91   gfs2-glocks
92   hfs
93   hfsplus
94   hpfs
95   fuse
96   fuse-io
97   inotify
98   isofs
99   nilfs2
100   nfs/index
101   ntfs
102   ocfs2
103   ocfs2-online-filecheck
104   omfs
105   orangefs
106   overlayfs
107   proc
108   qnx6
109   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
110   relay
111   romfs
112   spufs/index
113   squashfs
114   sysfs
115   sysv-fs
116   tmpfs
117   ubifs
118   ubifs-authentication.rst
119   udf
120   virtiofs
121   vfat
122   xfs-delayed-logging-design
123   xfs-self-describing-metadata
124   zonefs
125