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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -07001===============================
2Filesystems in the Linux kernel
3===============================
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -03004
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -07005This 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 -03009
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070010Core VFS documentation
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -030011======================
12
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070013See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its
14algorithms work.
NeilBrown7bbfd9a2018-12-05 10:02:51 +110015
16.. toctree::
17 :maxdepth: 2
18
Tobin C. Hardingaf96c1e32019-05-15 10:29:13 +100019 vfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7c116d22019-06-26 10:35:11 -030020 path-lookup
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070021 api-summary
22 splice
Mauro Carvalho Chehabec23eb52019-07-26 09:51:27 -030023 locking
24 directory-locking
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010025
Mauro Carvalho Chehab25b532c2019-07-26 09:51:28 -030026 porting
27
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070028Filesystem 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 +010033
34.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070035 :maxdepth: 2
36
37 journalling
38 fscrypt
Eric Biggers6ff2deb2019-07-22 09:26:20 -070039 fsverity
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +010040
41Filesystems
42===========
43
44Documentation for filesystem implementations.
45
46.. toctree::
47 :maxdepth: 2
48
Mauro Carvalho Chehab07d241f2020-02-17 17:11:47 +010049 9p
Mauro Carvalho Chehab34873902020-02-17 17:11:48 +010050 adfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab762721682020-02-17 17:11:49 +010051 affs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabca6e9042020-02-17 17:11:50 +010052 afs
Jaskaran Singhf11f2a32019-11-17 22:54:34 +053053 autofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc64d3dc2020-02-17 17:11:51 +010054 autofs-mount-control
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc54ad9a2020-02-17 17:11:52 +010055 befs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabee68f342020-02-17 17:11:53 +010056 bfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5d43e1b2020-02-17 17:11:54 +010057 btrfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab471379a2020-02-17 17:11:55 +010058 ceph
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf1fa0e62020-02-17 17:11:56 +010059 cramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57443782020-02-17 17:11:57 +010060 debugfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab14a19fa2020-02-17 17:11:58 +010061 dlmfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb02a17c2020-02-17 17:11:59 +010062 ecryptfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab06dedb42020-02-17 17:12:00 +010063 efivarfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe66d8632020-02-17 17:12:01 +010064 erofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6e29ad22020-02-17 17:12:02 +010065 ext2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7dc62402020-02-17 17:12:03 +010066 ext3
Mauro Carvalho Chehab89272ca2020-02-17 17:12:04 +010067 f2fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab720c2fc2020-02-17 17:12:05 +010068 gfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5b7ac272020-02-17 17:12:06 +010069 gfs2-uevents
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5040a0a2020-02-17 17:12:08 +010070 hfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabcdded7d2020-02-17 17:12:07 +010071 hfsplus
Mauro Carvalho Chehaba1ef4bc2020-02-17 17:12:09 +010072 hpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010073 fuse
Mauro Carvalho Chehabde389cf2020-02-17 17:12:10 +010074 inotify
Mauro Carvalho Chehab76f21682020-02-17 17:12:11 +010075 isofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010076 nilfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab461f2c82020-02-17 17:12:13 +010077 nfs/index
78 ntfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfa95e082020-02-17 17:12:15 +010079 ocfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab3d0c60d2020-02-17 17:12:14 +010080 ocfs2-online-filecheck
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7cbb4682020-02-17 17:12:16 +010081 omfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab18ccb222020-02-17 17:12:17 +010082 orangefs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab77ce1a42020-01-28 07:41:01 +010083 overlayfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc33e97e2020-02-17 17:12:18 +010084 proc
Mauro Carvalho Chehabd5eefa22020-02-17 17:12:19 +010085 qnx6
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8979fc92020-02-17 17:12:20 +010086 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab56e6d5c2020-02-17 17:12:21 +010087 relay
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6db0a482020-02-17 17:12:22 +010088 romfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab31771f42020-02-17 17:12:23 +010089 squashfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab86beb972020-02-17 17:12:24 +010090 sysfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab826a6132020-02-17 17:12:25 +010091 sysv-fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7e7cd452020-02-17 17:12:26 +010092 tmpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab38e56b42020-02-17 17:12:28 +010093 ubifs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab688f1182020-02-17 17:12:27 +010094 ubifs-authentication.rst
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc9817ad2020-02-17 17:12:29 +010095 udf
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +010096 virtiofs
Daniel W. S. Almeidaa1986432019-12-22 22:00:30 -030097 vfat