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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -07003===============================
4Filesystems in the Linux kernel
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -03006
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -07007This 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.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -030011
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070012Core VFS documentation
Mauro Carvalho Chehab90f9f112017-05-12 06:50:22 -030013======================
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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070015See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its
16algorithms work.
NeilBrown7bbfd9a2018-12-05 10:02:51 +110017
18.. toctree::
19 :maxdepth: 2
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Tobin C. Hardingaf96c1e32019-05-15 10:29:13 +100021 vfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7c116d22019-06-26 10:35:11 -030022 path-lookup
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070023 api-summary
24 splice
Mauro Carvalho Chehabec23eb52019-07-26 09:51:27 -030025 locking
26 directory-locking
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010027
Mauro Carvalho Chehab41defb42020-04-27 23:17:00 +020028 automount-support
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab67145c22020-04-27 23:16:53 +020030 caching/index
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab25b532c2019-07-26 09:51:28 -030032 porting
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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070034Filesystem support layers
35=========================
36
37Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
38filesystem implementations.
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010039
40.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070041 :maxdepth: 2
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43 journalling
44 fscrypt
Eric Biggers6ff2deb2019-07-22 09:26:20 -070045 fsverity
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +010046
47Filesystems
48===========
49
50Documentation for filesystem implementations.
51
52.. toctree::
53 :maxdepth: 2
54
Mauro Carvalho Chehab07d241f2020-02-17 17:11:47 +010055 9p
Mauro Carvalho Chehab34873902020-02-17 17:11:48 +010056 adfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab762721682020-02-17 17:11:49 +010057 affs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabca6e9042020-02-17 17:11:50 +010058 afs
Jaskaran Singhf11f2a32019-11-17 22:54:34 +053059 autofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc64d3dc2020-02-17 17:11:51 +010060 autofs-mount-control
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc54ad9a2020-02-17 17:11:52 +010061 befs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabee68f342020-02-17 17:11:53 +010062 bfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5d43e1b2020-02-17 17:11:54 +010063 btrfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab175cc462020-04-27 23:16:59 +020064 cifs/cifsroot
Mauro Carvalho Chehab471379a2020-02-17 17:11:55 +010065 ceph
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf1fa0e62020-02-17 17:11:56 +010066 cramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57443782020-02-17 17:11:57 +010067 debugfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab14a19fa2020-02-17 17:11:58 +010068 dlmfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb02a17c2020-02-17 17:11:59 +010069 ecryptfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab06dedb42020-02-17 17:12:00 +010070 efivarfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe66d8632020-02-17 17:12:01 +010071 erofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6e29ad22020-02-17 17:12:02 +010072 ext2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7dc62402020-02-17 17:12:03 +010073 ext3
Mauro Carvalho Chehab89272ca2020-02-17 17:12:04 +010074 f2fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab720c2fc2020-02-17 17:12:05 +010075 gfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5b7ac272020-02-17 17:12:06 +010076 gfs2-uevents
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5040a0a2020-02-17 17:12:08 +010077 hfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabcdded7d2020-02-17 17:12:07 +010078 hfsplus
Mauro Carvalho Chehaba1ef4bc2020-02-17 17:12:09 +010079 hpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010080 fuse
Mauro Carvalho Chehabde389cf2020-02-17 17:12:10 +010081 inotify
Mauro Carvalho Chehab76f21682020-02-17 17:12:11 +010082 isofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010083 nilfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab461f2c82020-02-17 17:12:13 +010084 nfs/index
85 ntfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfa95e082020-02-17 17:12:15 +010086 ocfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab3d0c60d2020-02-17 17:12:14 +010087 ocfs2-online-filecheck
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7cbb4682020-02-17 17:12:16 +010088 omfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab18ccb222020-02-17 17:12:17 +010089 orangefs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab77ce1a42020-01-28 07:41:01 +010090 overlayfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc33e97e2020-02-17 17:12:18 +010091 proc
Mauro Carvalho Chehabd5eefa22020-02-17 17:12:19 +010092 qnx6
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8979fc92020-02-17 17:12:20 +010093 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab56e6d5c2020-02-17 17:12:21 +010094 relay
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6db0a482020-02-17 17:12:22 +010095 romfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab31771f42020-02-17 17:12:23 +010096 squashfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab86beb972020-02-17 17:12:24 +010097 sysfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab826a6132020-02-17 17:12:25 +010098 sysv-fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7e7cd452020-02-17 17:12:26 +010099 tmpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab38e56b42020-02-17 17:12:28 +0100100 ubifs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab688f1182020-02-17 17:12:27 +0100101 ubifs-authentication.rst
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc9817ad2020-02-17 17:12:29 +0100102 udf
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100103 virtiofs
Daniel W. S. Almeidaa1986432019-12-22 22:00:30 -0300104 vfat
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9a610812020-02-17 17:12:30 +0100105 zonefs