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   ext4/index
87   f2fs
88   gfs2
89   gfs2-uevents
90   gfs2-glocks
91   hfs
92   hfsplus
93   hpfs
94   fuse
95   fuse-io
96   inotify
97   isofs
98   nilfs2
99   nfs/index
100   ntfs
101   ocfs2
102   ocfs2-online-filecheck
103   omfs
104   orangefs
105   overlayfs
106   proc
107   qnx6
108   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
109   relay
110   romfs
111   spufs/index
112   squashfs
113   sysfs
114   sysv-fs
115   tmpfs
116   ubifs
117   ubifs-authentication
118   udf
119   virtiofs
120   vfat
121   xfs-delayed-logging-design
122   xfs-self-describing-metadata
123   zonefs
124