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 cramfs 78 debugfs 79 dlmfs 80 ecryptfs 81 efivarfs 82 erofs 83 ext2 84 ext3 85 f2fs 86 gfs2 87 gfs2-uevents 88 hfs 89 hfsplus 90 hpfs 91 fuse 92 fuse-io 93 inotify 94 isofs 95 nilfs2 96 nfs/index 97 ntfs 98 ocfs2 99 ocfs2-online-filecheck 100 omfs 101 orangefs 102 overlayfs 103 proc 104 qnx6 105 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs 106 relay 107 romfs 108 squashfs 109 sysfs 110 sysv-fs 111 tmpfs 112 ubifs 113 ubifs-authentication.rst 114 udf 115 virtiofs 116 vfat 117 zonefs 118