| 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 |
| Christian Brauner | 35283f5 | 2019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Filesystem support layers |
| 25 | ========================= |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in |
| 28 | filesystem implementations. |
| Christian Brauner | 35283f5 | 2019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| 30 | .. toctree:: |
| Jonathan Corbet | 4064174 | 2019-02-20 15:29:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 32 | |
| 33 | journalling |
| 34 | fscrypt |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Filesystem-specific documentation |
| 37 | ================================= |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Documentation for individual filesystem types can be found here. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | .. toctree:: |
| 42 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| Christian Brauner | 35283f5 | 2019-01-11 14:40:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | |
| Mauro Carvalho Chehab | 7c116d2 | 2019-06-26 10:35:11 -0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 44 | binderfs |