| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | =============================== |
| 2 | Filesystems in the Linux kernel |
| 3 | =============================== |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 90f9f11 | 2017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide |
| 6 | comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer |
| 7 | works, along with the filesystems that sit below it. For now, what we have |
| 8 | can be found below. |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 90f9f11 | 2017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | Core VFS documentation |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 90f9f11 | 2017-05-12 06:50:22 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | ====================== |
| 12 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its |
| 14 | algorithms work. |
| NeilBrown | 7bbfd9a | 2018-12-05 10:02:51 +1100 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| 16 | .. toctree:: |
| 17 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 18 | |
| Tobin C. Harding | af96c1e3 | 2019-05-15 10:29:13 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | vfs |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 7c116d2 | 2019-06-26 10:35:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | path-lookup |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | api-summary |
| 22 | splice |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | ec23eb5 | 2019-07-26 09:51:27 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | locking |
| 24 | directory-locking |
| Christian Brauner | 35283f5 | 2019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 25b532c | 2019-07-26 09:51:28 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | porting |
| 27 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | Filesystem support layers |
| 29 | ========================= |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in |
| 32 | filesystem implementations. |
| Christian Brauner | 35283f5 | 2019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | |
| 34 | .. toctree:: |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 36 | |
| 37 | journalling |
| 38 | fscrypt |
| Eric Biggers | 6ff2deb | 2019-07-22 09:26:20 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | fsverity |
| Stefan Hajnoczi | 2d1d25d | 2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | |
| 41 | Filesystems |
| 42 | =========== |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Documentation for filesystem implementations. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | .. toctree:: |
| 47 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 48 | |
| Jaskaran Singh | f11f2a3 | 2019-11-17 22:54:34 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | autofs |
| Daniel W. S. Almeida | 8ab13bc | 2020-01-29 02:06:21 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | fuse |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 77ce1a4 | 2020-01-28 07:41:01 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | overlayfs |
| Stefan Hajnoczi | 2d1d25d | 2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | virtiofs |
| Daniel W. S. Almeida | a198643 | 2019-12-22 22:00:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | vfat |
| Daniel W. S. Almeida | 34e75cf | 2020-01-29 01:49:13 -0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 54 | nfs/index |