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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -07003===============================
4Filesystems in the Linux kernel
5===============================
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
Mauro Carvalho Chehab01478b82020-04-27 23:17:02 +020027 devpts
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010028
Mauro Carvalho Chehab41defb42020-04-27 23:17:00 +020029 automount-support
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab67145c22020-04-27 23:16:53 +020031 caching/index
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab25b532c2019-07-26 09:51:28 -030033 porting
34
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070035Filesystem support layers
36=========================
37
38Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
39filesystem implementations.
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010040
41.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070042 :maxdepth: 2
43
44 journalling
45 fscrypt
Eric Biggers6ff2deb2019-07-22 09:26:20 -070046 fsverity
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +010047
48Filesystems
49===========
50
51Documentation for filesystem implementations.
52
53.. toctree::
54 :maxdepth: 2
55
Mauro Carvalho Chehab07d241f2020-02-17 17:11:47 +010056 9p
Mauro Carvalho Chehab34873902020-02-17 17:11:48 +010057 adfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab762721682020-02-17 17:11:49 +010058 affs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabca6e9042020-02-17 17:11:50 +010059 afs
Jaskaran Singhf11f2a32019-11-17 22:54:34 +053060 autofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc64d3dc2020-02-17 17:11:51 +010061 autofs-mount-control
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc54ad9a2020-02-17 17:11:52 +010062 befs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabee68f342020-02-17 17:11:53 +010063 bfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5d43e1b2020-02-17 17:11:54 +010064 btrfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab175cc462020-04-27 23:16:59 +020065 cifs/cifsroot
Mauro Carvalho Chehab471379a2020-02-17 17:11:55 +010066 ceph
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf476c6e2020-04-27 23:17:01 +020067 coda
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf1fa0e62020-02-17 17:11:56 +010068 cramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57443782020-02-17 17:11:57 +010069 debugfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab14a19fa2020-02-17 17:11:58 +010070 dlmfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb02a17c2020-02-17 17:11:59 +010071 ecryptfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab06dedb42020-02-17 17:12:00 +010072 efivarfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe66d8632020-02-17 17:12:01 +010073 erofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6e29ad22020-02-17 17:12:02 +010074 ext2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7dc62402020-02-17 17:12:03 +010075 ext3
Mauro Carvalho Chehab89272ca2020-02-17 17:12:04 +010076 f2fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab720c2fc2020-02-17 17:12:05 +010077 gfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5b7ac272020-02-17 17:12:06 +010078 gfs2-uevents
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5040a0a2020-02-17 17:12:08 +010079 hfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabcdded7d2020-02-17 17:12:07 +010080 hfsplus
Mauro Carvalho Chehaba1ef4bc2020-02-17 17:12:09 +010081 hpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010082 fuse
Mauro Carvalho Chehabde389cf2020-02-17 17:12:10 +010083 inotify
Mauro Carvalho Chehab76f21682020-02-17 17:12:11 +010084 isofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010085 nilfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab461f2c82020-02-17 17:12:13 +010086 nfs/index
87 ntfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfa95e082020-02-17 17:12:15 +010088 ocfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab3d0c60d2020-02-17 17:12:14 +010089 ocfs2-online-filecheck
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7cbb4682020-02-17 17:12:16 +010090 omfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab18ccb222020-02-17 17:12:17 +010091 orangefs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab77ce1a42020-01-28 07:41:01 +010092 overlayfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc33e97e2020-02-17 17:12:18 +010093 proc
Mauro Carvalho Chehabd5eefa22020-02-17 17:12:19 +010094 qnx6
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8979fc92020-02-17 17:12:20 +010095 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab56e6d5c2020-02-17 17:12:21 +010096 relay
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6db0a482020-02-17 17:12:22 +010097 romfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab31771f42020-02-17 17:12:23 +010098 squashfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab86beb972020-02-17 17:12:24 +010099 sysfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab826a6132020-02-17 17:12:25 +0100100 sysv-fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7e7cd452020-02-17 17:12:26 +0100101 tmpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab38e56b42020-02-17 17:12:28 +0100102 ubifs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab688f1182020-02-17 17:12:27 +0100103 ubifs-authentication.rst
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc9817ad2020-02-17 17:12:29 +0100104 udf
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100105 virtiofs
Daniel W. S. Almeidaa1986432019-12-22 22:00:30 -0300106 vfat
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9a610812020-02-17 17:12:30 +0100107 zonefs