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   cramfs
80   debugfs
81   dlmfs
82   ecryptfs
83   efivarfs
84   erofs
85   ext2
86   ext3
87   f2fs
88   gfs2
89   gfs2-uevents
90   hfs
91   hfsplus
92   hpfs
93   fuse
94   fuse-io
95   inotify
96   isofs
97   nilfs2
98   nfs/index
99   ntfs
100   ocfs2
101   ocfs2-online-filecheck
102   omfs
103   orangefs
104   overlayfs
105   proc
106   qnx6
107   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
108   relay
109   romfs
110   spufs/index
111   squashfs
112   sysfs
113   sysv-fs
114   tmpfs
115   ubifs
116   ubifs-authentication.rst
117   udf
118   virtiofs
119   vfat
120   zonefs
121