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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.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080013automount-support.txt
14 - information about filesystem automount support.
15befs.txt
16 - information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017bfs.txt
18 - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
Cheng Renquan8136b582010-03-29 19:05:57 +080019ceph.txt
20 - info for the Ceph Distributed File System
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021cifs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080022 - description of the CIFS filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070023coda.txt
24 - description of the CODA filesystem.
Joel Becker7063fbf2005-12-15 14:29:43 -080025configfs/
26 - directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070027cramfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080028 - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
29dentry-locking.txt
30 - info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080031directory-locking
32 - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
Mark Fasheh8df08c82005-12-15 14:31:23 -080033dlmfs.txt
34 - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
J. Bruce Fieldse9b1a4d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080035dnotify.txt
36 - info about directory notification in Linux.
Randy Dunlap1e0051a2010-03-10 15:21:57 -080037dnotify_test.c
38 - example program for dnotify
Rob Landleyc811ac52007-09-11 15:23:41 -070039ecryptfs.txt
40 - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo9f249162009-07-27 13:26:32 -030041exofs.txt
42 - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043ext2.txt
44 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080045ext3.txt
46 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
Dave Kleikampfc513a32006-10-11 01:21:25 -070047ext4.txt
48 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080049files.txt
50 - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
51fuse.txt
52 - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070053gfs2.txt
54 - info on the Global File System 2.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080055hfs.txt
56 - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070057hfsplus.txt
58 - info on the Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059hpfs.txt
60 - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070061inotify.txt
62 - info on the powerful yet simple file change notification system.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070063isofs.txt
64 - info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
65jfs.txt
66 - info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields98257af2007-09-30 22:18:55 -040067locks.txt
68 - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
Joern Engel5db53f32009-11-20 20:13:39 +010069logfs.txt
70 - info on the LogFS flash filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields4f3b19c2007-09-24 18:52:09 -040071mandatory-locking.txt
72 - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070073ncpfs.txt
74 - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -040075nfs/
76 - nfs-related documentation.
Ryusuke Konishi962281a2009-04-06 19:01:20 -070077nilfs2.txt
78 - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070079ntfs.txt
80 - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -080081ocfs2.txt
82 - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080083porting
84 - various information on filesystem porting.
85proc.txt
86 - info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
87ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
88 - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
89reiser4.txt
90 - info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
Tom Zanussie88d78f2006-08-27 01:23:47 -070091relay.txt
92 - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093romfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080094 - description of the ROMFS filesystem.
Jonathan Corbetded49262008-03-28 11:19:56 -060095seq_file.txt
96 - how to use the seq_file API
J. Bruce Fieldsd3cf91d02008-02-07 00:13:35 -080097sharedsubtree.txt
98 - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080099spufs.txt
100 - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
101sysfs-pci.txt
102 - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
103sysfs.txt
104 - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105sysv-fs.txt
106 - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800107tmpfs.txt
108 - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700109udf.txt
110 - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
111ufs.txt
112 - info on the ufs filesystem.
113vfat.txt
114 - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
115vfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800116 - overview of the Virtual File System
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700117xfs.txt
118 - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800119xip.txt
120 - info on execute-in-place for file mappings.