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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100-INDEX
2 - this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux).
3Locking
4 - info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS.
Eric Van Hensbergene03abc02007-02-11 13:21:39 -060059p.txt
6 - 9p (v9fs) is an implementation of the Plan 9 remote fs protocol.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07007adfs.txt
8 - info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -08009afs.txt
10 - info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011affs.txt
12 - info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080013autofs4-mount-control.txt
14 - info on device control operations for autofs4 module.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080015automount-support.txt
16 - information about filesystem automount support.
17befs.txt
18 - information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070019bfs.txt
20 - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080021btrfs.txt
22 - info for the BTRFS filesystem.
23caching/
24 - directory containing filesystem cache documentation.
Cheng Renquan8136b582010-03-29 19:05:57 +080025ceph.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080026 - info for the Ceph Distributed File System.
27cifs/
28 - directory containing CIFS filesystem documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029coda.txt
30 - description of the CODA filesystem.
Joel Becker7063fbf2005-12-15 14:29:43 -080031configfs/
32 - directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070033cramfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080034 - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
Matthew Wilcox95ec8da2015-02-16 15:59:09 -080035dax.txt
36 - info on avoiding the page cache for files stored on CPU-addressable
37 storage devices.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080038debugfs.txt
39 - info on the debugfs filesystem.
40devpts.txt
41 - info on the devpts filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080042directory-locking
43 - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
Mark Fasheh8df08c82005-12-15 14:31:23 -080044dlmfs.txt
45 - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
J. Bruce Fieldse9b1a4d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080046dnotify.txt
47 - info about directory notification in Linux.
Randy Dunlap1e0051a2010-03-10 15:21:57 -080048dnotify_test.c
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080049 - example program for dnotify.
Rob Landleyc811ac52007-09-11 15:23:41 -070050ecryptfs.txt
51 - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
Matt Fleminge913ca72012-10-04 09:57:31 +010052efivarfs.txt
53 - info for the efivarfs filesystem.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo9f249162009-07-27 13:26:32 -030054exofs.txt
55 - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070056ext2.txt
57 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080058ext3.txt
59 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
Dave Kleikampfc513a32006-10-11 01:21:25 -070060ext4.txt
61 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
Jaegeuk Kim98e4da82012-11-02 17:05:42 +090062f2fs.txt
63 - info and mount options for the F2FS filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080064fiemap.txt
65 - info on fiemap ioctl.
66files.txt
67 - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080068fuse.txt
69 - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080070gfs2-glocks.txt
71 - info on the Global File System 2 - Glock internal locking rules.
72gfs2-uevents.txt
73 - info on the Global File System 2 - uevents.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070074gfs2.txt
75 - info on the Global File System 2.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080076hfs.txt
77 - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070078hfsplus.txt
79 - info on the Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070080hpfs.txt
81 - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070082inotify.txt
83 - info on the powerful yet simple file change notification system.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084isofs.txt
85 - info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
86jfs.txt
87 - info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields98257af2007-09-30 22:18:55 -040088locks.txt
89 - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
J. Bruce Fields4f3b19c2007-09-24 18:52:09 -040090mandatory-locking.txt
91 - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070092ncpfs.txt
93 - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -040094nfs/
95 - nfs-related documentation.
Ryusuke Konishi962281a2009-04-06 19:01:20 -070096nilfs2.txt
97 - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070098ntfs.txt
99 - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800100ocfs2.txt
101 - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800102omfs.txt
103 - info on the Optimized MPEG FileSystem.
104path-lookup.txt
105 - info on path walking and name lookup locking.
106pohmelfs/
107 - directory containing pohmelfs filesystem documentation.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800108porting
109 - various information on filesystem porting.
110proc.txt
111 - info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800112qnx6.txt
113 - info on the QNX6 filesystem.
114quota.txt
115 - info on Quota subsystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800116ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
117 - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
Tom Zanussie88d78f2006-08-27 01:23:47 -0700118relay.txt
119 - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700120romfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800121 - description of the ROMFS filesystem.
Jonathan Corbetded49262008-03-28 11:19:56 -0600122seq_file.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800123 - how to use the seq_file API.
J. Bruce Fieldsd3cf91d02008-02-07 00:13:35 -0800124sharedsubtree.txt
125 - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800126spufs.txt
127 - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800128squashfs.txt
129 - info on the squashfs filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800130sysfs-pci.txt
131 - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800132sysfs-tagging.txt
133 - info on sysfs tagging to avoid duplicates.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800134sysfs.txt
135 - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136sysv-fs.txt
137 - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800138tmpfs.txt
139 - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800140ubifs.txt
141 - info on the Unsorted Block Images FileSystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700142udf.txt
143 - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
144ufs.txt
145 - info on the ufs filesystem.
146vfat.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800147 - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700148vfs.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800149 - overview of the Virtual File System.
150xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
151 - info on the XFS Delayed Logging Design.
152xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
153 - info on XFS Self Describing Metadata.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700154xfs.txt
155 - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.