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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
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb31763c2020-04-27 23:17:03 +020028 dnotify
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe6f7df72020-04-27 23:17:04 +020029 fiemap
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe6d42cb2020-04-27 23:17:05 +020030 files
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010031
Mauro Carvalho Chehab41defb42020-04-27 23:17:00 +020032 automount-support
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab67145c22020-04-27 23:16:53 +020034 caching/index
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab25b532c2019-07-26 09:51:28 -030036 porting
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Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070038Filesystem support layers
39=========================
40
41Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
42filesystem implementations.
Christian Brauner35283f52019-01-11 14:40:59 +010043
44.. toctree::
Jonathan Corbet40641742019-02-20 15:29:36 -070045 :maxdepth: 2
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47 journalling
48 fscrypt
Eric Biggers6ff2deb2019-07-22 09:26:20 -070049 fsverity
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +010050
51Filesystems
52===========
53
54Documentation for filesystem implementations.
55
56.. toctree::
57 :maxdepth: 2
58
Mauro Carvalho Chehab07d241f2020-02-17 17:11:47 +010059 9p
Mauro Carvalho Chehab34873902020-02-17 17:11:48 +010060 adfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab762721682020-02-17 17:11:49 +010061 affs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabca6e9042020-02-17 17:11:50 +010062 afs
Jaskaran Singhf11f2a32019-11-17 22:54:34 +053063 autofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc64d3dc2020-02-17 17:11:51 +010064 autofs-mount-control
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc54ad9a2020-02-17 17:11:52 +010065 befs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabee68f342020-02-17 17:11:53 +010066 bfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5d43e1b2020-02-17 17:11:54 +010067 btrfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab175cc462020-04-27 23:16:59 +020068 cifs/cifsroot
Mauro Carvalho Chehab471379a2020-02-17 17:11:55 +010069 ceph
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf476c6e2020-04-27 23:17:01 +020070 coda
Mauro Carvalho Chehabf1fa0e62020-02-17 17:11:56 +010071 cramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab57443782020-02-17 17:11:57 +010072 debugfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab14a19fa2020-02-17 17:11:58 +010073 dlmfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabb02a17c2020-02-17 17:11:59 +010074 ecryptfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab06dedb42020-02-17 17:12:00 +010075 efivarfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe66d8632020-02-17 17:12:01 +010076 erofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6e29ad22020-02-17 17:12:02 +010077 ext2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7dc62402020-02-17 17:12:03 +010078 ext3
Mauro Carvalho Chehab89272ca2020-02-17 17:12:04 +010079 f2fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab720c2fc2020-02-17 17:12:05 +010080 gfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5b7ac272020-02-17 17:12:06 +010081 gfs2-uevents
Mauro Carvalho Chehab5040a0a2020-02-17 17:12:08 +010082 hfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabcdded7d2020-02-17 17:12:07 +010083 hfsplus
Mauro Carvalho Chehaba1ef4bc2020-02-17 17:12:09 +010084 hpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010085 fuse
Mauro Carvalho Chehabba302d22020-04-27 23:17:06 +020086 fuse-io
Mauro Carvalho Chehabde389cf2020-02-17 17:12:10 +010087 inotify
Mauro Carvalho Chehab76f21682020-02-17 17:12:11 +010088 isofs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab2640c192020-02-17 17:12:12 +010089 nilfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab461f2c82020-02-17 17:12:13 +010090 nfs/index
91 ntfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabfa95e082020-02-17 17:12:15 +010092 ocfs2
Mauro Carvalho Chehab3d0c60d2020-02-17 17:12:14 +010093 ocfs2-online-filecheck
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7cbb4682020-02-17 17:12:16 +010094 omfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab18ccb222020-02-17 17:12:17 +010095 orangefs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab77ce1a42020-01-28 07:41:01 +010096 overlayfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc33e97e2020-02-17 17:12:18 +010097 proc
Mauro Carvalho Chehabd5eefa22020-02-17 17:12:19 +010098 qnx6
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8979fc92020-02-17 17:12:20 +010099 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab56e6d5c2020-02-17 17:12:21 +0100100 relay
Mauro Carvalho Chehab6db0a482020-02-17 17:12:22 +0100101 romfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab31771f42020-02-17 17:12:23 +0100102 squashfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab86beb972020-02-17 17:12:24 +0100103 sysfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab826a6132020-02-17 17:12:25 +0100104 sysv-fs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab7e7cd452020-02-17 17:12:26 +0100105 tmpfs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab38e56b42020-02-17 17:12:28 +0100106 ubifs
Mauro Carvalho Chehab688f1182020-02-17 17:12:27 +0100107 ubifs-authentication.rst
Mauro Carvalho Chehabc9817ad2020-02-17 17:12:29 +0100108 udf
Stefan Hajnoczi2d1d25d2019-08-29 14:41:04 +0100109 virtiofs
Daniel W. S. Almeidaa1986432019-12-22 22:00:30 -0300110 vfat
Mauro Carvalho Chehab9a610812020-02-17 17:12:30 +0100111 zonefs