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