1.. _filesystems_index: 2 3=============================== 4Filesystems in the Linux kernel 5=============================== 6 7This 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. 11 12Core VFS documentation 13====================== 14 15See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its 16algorithms work. 17 18.. toctree:: 19 :maxdepth: 2 20 21 vfs 22 path-lookup 23 api-summary 24 splice 25 locking 26 directory-locking 27 devpts 28 dnotify 29 fiemap 30 files 31 locks 32 mmap_prepare 33 multigrain-ts 34 mount_api 35 quota 36 seq_file 37 sharedsubtree 38 idmappings 39 iomap/index 40 41 automount-support 42 43 caching/index 44 45 porting 46 47Filesystem support layers 48========================= 49 50Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in 51filesystem implementations. 52 53.. toctree:: 54 :maxdepth: 2 55 56 buffer 57 journalling 58 fscrypt 59 fsverity 60 netfs_library 61 62Filesystems 63=========== 64 65Documentation for filesystem implementations. 66 67.. toctree:: 68 :maxdepth: 2 69 70 9p 71 adfs 72 affs 73 afs 74 autofs 75 autofs-mount-control 76 befs 77 bfs 78 btrfs 79 ceph 80 coda 81 configfs 82 cramfs 83 dax 84 debugfs 85 dlmfs 86 ecryptfs 87 efivarfs 88 erofs 89 ext2 90 ext3 91 ext4/index 92 f2fs 93 gfs2/index 94 hfs 95 hfsplus 96 hpfs 97 fuse/index 98 inotify 99 isofs 100 nilfs2 101 nfs/index 102 ntfs 103 ntfs3 104 ocfs2 105 ocfs2-online-filecheck 106 omfs 107 orangefs 108 overlayfs 109 proc 110 qnx6 111 ramfs-rootfs-initramfs 112 relay 113 resctrl 114 romfs 115 smb/index 116 spufs/index 117 squashfs 118 sysfs 119 tmpfs 120 ubifs 121 ubifs-authentication 122 udf 123 virtiofs 124 vfat 125 xfs/index 126 zonefs 127