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   mandatory-locking
 33   mount_api
 34   quota
 35   seq_file
 36   sharedsubtree
 37   sysfs-pci
 38   sysfs-tagging
 39
 40   automount-support
 41
 42   caching/index
 43
 44   porting
 45
 46Filesystem support layers
 47=========================
 48
 49Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
 50filesystem implementations.
 51
 52.. toctree::
 53   :maxdepth: 2
 54
 55   journalling
 56   fscrypt
 57   fsverity
 58
 59Filesystems
 60===========
 61
 62Documentation for filesystem implementations.
 63
 64.. toctree::
 65   :maxdepth: 2
 66
 67   9p
 68   adfs
 69   affs
 70   afs
 71   autofs
 72   autofs-mount-control
 73   befs
 74   bfs
 75   btrfs
 76   cifs/cifsroot
 77   ceph
 78   coda
 79   configfs
 80   cramfs
 81   debugfs
 82   dlmfs
 83   ecryptfs
 84   efivarfs
 85   erofs
 86   ext2
 87   ext3
 88   f2fs
 89   gfs2
 90   gfs2-uevents
 91   gfs2-glocks
 92   hfs
 93   hfsplus
 94   hpfs
 95   fuse
 96   fuse-io
 97   inotify
 98   isofs
 99   nilfs2
100   nfs/index
101   ntfs
102   ocfs2
103   ocfs2-online-filecheck
104   omfs
105   orangefs
106   overlayfs
107   proc
108   qnx6
109   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
110   relay
111   romfs
112   spufs/index
113   squashfs
114   sysfs
115   sysv-fs
116   tmpfs
117   ubifs
118   ubifs-authentication.rst
119   udf
120   virtiofs
121   vfat
122   xfs-delayed-logging-design
123   xfs-self-describing-metadata
124   zonefs