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