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   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.rst
118   udf
119   virtiofs
120   vfat
121   xfs-delayed-logging-design
122   xfs-self-describing-metadata
123   zonefs
124