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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]1===============================
2Filesystems in the Linux kernel
3===============================
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300[diff] [blame]4
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]5This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide
6comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer
7works, along with the filesystems that sit below it. For now, what we have
8can be found below.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300[diff] [blame]9
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]10Core VFS documentation
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300[diff] [blame]11======================
12
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]13See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its
14algorithms work.
NeilBrown7bbfd9a2018-12-05 10:02:51 +1100[diff] [blame]15
16.. toctree::
17 :maxdepth: 2
18
Tobin C. Hardingaf96c1e32019-05-15 10:29:13 +1000[diff] [blame]19 vfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7c116d22019-06-26 10:35:11 -0300[diff] [blame]20 path-lookup
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]21 api-summary
22 splice
Mauro Carvalho Chehabec23eb52019-07-26 09:51:27 -0300[diff] [blame]23 locking
24 directory-locking
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100[diff] [blame]25
Mauro Carvalho Chehab25b532c2019-07-26 09:51:28 -0300[diff] [blame]26 porting
27
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]28Filesystem support layers
29=========================
30
31Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
32filesystem implementations.
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100[diff] [blame]33
34.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700[diff] [blame]35 :maxdepth: 2
36
37 journalling
38 fscrypt
Eric Biggers6ff2deb2019-07-22 09:26:20 -0700[diff] [blame]39 fsverity
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100[diff] [blame]40
41Filesystems
42===========
43
44Documentation for filesystem implementations.
45
46.. toctree::
47 :maxdepth: 2
48
Mauro Carvalho Chehab07d241f2020-02-17 17:11:47 +0100[diff] [blame]49 9p
Mauro Carvalho Chehab34873902020-02-17 17:11:48 +0100[diff] [blame]50 adfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab762721682020-02-17 17:11:49 +0100[diff] [blame]51 affs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabca6e9042020-02-17 17:11:50 +0100[diff] [blame]52 afs
Jaskaran Singhf11f2a32019-11-17 22:54:34 +0530[diff] [blame]53 autofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc64d3dc2020-02-17 17:11:51 +0100[diff] [blame]54 autofs-mount-control
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc54ad9a2020-02-17 17:11:52 +0100[diff] [blame]55 befs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabee68f342020-02-17 17:11:53 +0100[diff] [blame]56 bfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5d43e1b2020-02-17 17:11:54 +0100[diff] [blame]57 btrfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab471379a2020-02-17 17:11:55 +0100[diff] [blame]58 ceph
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf1fa0e62020-02-17 17:11:56 +0100[diff] [blame]59 cramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57443782020-02-17 17:11:57 +0100[diff] [blame]60 debugfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab14a19fa2020-02-17 17:11:58 +0100[diff] [blame]61 dlmfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb02a17c2020-02-17 17:11:59 +0100[diff] [blame]62 ecryptfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab06dedb42020-02-17 17:12:00 +0100[diff] [blame]63 efivarfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe66d8632020-02-17 17:12:01 +0100[diff] [blame]64 erofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6e29ad22020-02-17 17:12:02 +0100[diff] [blame]65 ext2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7dc62402020-02-17 17:12:03 +0100[diff] [blame]66 ext3
Mauro Carvalho Chehab89272ca2020-02-17 17:12:04 +0100[diff] [blame]67 f2fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab720c2fc2020-02-17 17:12:05 +0100[diff] [blame]68 gfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5b7ac272020-02-17 17:12:06 +0100[diff] [blame^]69 gfs2-uevents
Daniel W. S. Almeida8ab13bc2020-01-29 02:06:21 -0300[diff] [blame]70 fuse
Mauro Carvalho Chehab77ce1a42020-01-28 07:41:01 +0100[diff] [blame]71 overlayfs
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100[diff] [blame]72 virtiofs
Daniel W. S. Almeidaa1986432019-12-22 22:00:30 -0300[diff] [blame]73 vfat
Daniel W. S. Almeida34e75cf2020-01-29 01:49:13 -0300[diff] [blame]74 nfs/index