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   multigrain-ts
33   mount_api
34   quota
35   seq_file
36   sharedsubtree
37   idmappings
38   iomap/index
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   buffer
56   journalling
57   fscrypt
58   fsverity
59   netfs_library
60
61Filesystems
62===========
63
64Documentation for filesystem implementations.
65
66.. toctree::
67   :maxdepth: 2
68
69   9p
70   adfs
71   affs
72   afs
73   autofs
74   autofs-mount-control
75   bcachefs/index
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
94   gfs2-uevents
95   gfs2-glocks
96   hfs
97   hfsplus
98   hpfs
99   fuse
100   fuse-io
101   fuse-io-uring
102   fuse-passthrough
103   inotify
104   isofs
105   nilfs2
106   nfs/index
107   ntfs3
108   ocfs2
109   ocfs2-online-filecheck
110   omfs
111   orangefs
112   overlayfs
113   proc
114   qnx6
115   ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
116   relay
117   resctrl
118   romfs
119   smb/index
120   spufs/index
121   squashfs
122   sysfs
123   tmpfs
124   ubifs
125   ubifs-authentication
126   udf
127   virtiofs
128   vfat
129   xfs/index
130   zonefs
131