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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).
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080035debugfs.txt
36 - info on the debugfs filesystem.
37devpts.txt
38 - info on the devpts filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080039directory-locking
40 - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
Mark Fasheh8df08c82005-12-15 14:31:23 -080041dlmfs.txt
42 - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
J. Bruce Fieldse9b1a4d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080043dnotify.txt
44 - info about directory notification in Linux.
Randy Dunlap1e0051a2010-03-10 15:21:57 -080045dnotify_test.c
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080046 - example program for dnotify.
Rob Landleyc811ac52007-09-11 15:23:41 -070047ecryptfs.txt
48 - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
Matt Fleminge913ca72012-10-04 09:57:31 +010049efivarfs.txt
50 - info for the efivarfs filesystem.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo9f249162009-07-27 13:26:32 -030051exofs.txt
52 - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070053ext2.txt
54 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080055ext3.txt
56 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
Dave Kleikampfc513a32006-10-11 01:21:25 -070057ext4.txt
58 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
Jaegeuk Kim98e4da82012-11-02 17:05:42 +090059f2fs.txt
60 - info and mount options for the F2FS filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080061fiemap.txt
62 - info on fiemap ioctl.
63files.txt
64 - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080065fuse.txt
66 - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080067gfs2-glocks.txt
68 - info on the Global File System 2 - Glock internal locking rules.
69gfs2-uevents.txt
70 - info on the Global File System 2 - uevents.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070071gfs2.txt
72 - info on the Global File System 2.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080073hfs.txt
74 - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070075hfsplus.txt
76 - info on the Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070077hpfs.txt
78 - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070079inotify.txt
80 - info on the powerful yet simple file change notification system.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081isofs.txt
82 - info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
83jfs.txt
84 - info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields98257af2007-09-30 22:18:55 -040085locks.txt
86 - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
Joern Engel5db53f32009-11-20 20:13:39 +010087logfs.txt
88 - info on the LogFS flash filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields4f3b19c2007-09-24 18:52:09 -040089mandatory-locking.txt
90 - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070091ncpfs.txt
92 - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -040093nfs/
94 - nfs-related documentation.
Ryusuke Konishi962281a2009-04-06 19:01:20 -070095nilfs2.txt
96 - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097ntfs.txt
98 - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -080099ocfs2.txt
100 - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800101omfs.txt
102 - info on the Optimized MPEG FileSystem.
103path-lookup.txt
104 - info on path walking and name lookup locking.
105pohmelfs/
106 - directory containing pohmelfs filesystem documentation.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800107porting
108 - various information on filesystem porting.
109proc.txt
110 - info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800111qnx6.txt
112 - info on the QNX6 filesystem.
113quota.txt
114 - info on Quota subsystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800115ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
116 - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
Tom Zanussie88d78f2006-08-27 01:23:47 -0700117relay.txt
118 - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700119romfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800120 - description of the ROMFS filesystem.
Jonathan Corbetded49262008-03-28 11:19:56 -0600121seq_file.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800122 - how to use the seq_file API.
J. Bruce Fieldsd3cf91d02008-02-07 00:13:35 -0800123sharedsubtree.txt
124 - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800125spufs.txt
126 - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800127squashfs.txt
128 - info on the squashfs filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800129sysfs-pci.txt
130 - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800131sysfs-tagging.txt
132 - info on sysfs tagging to avoid duplicates.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800133sysfs.txt
134 - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700135sysv-fs.txt
136 - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800137tmpfs.txt
138 - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800139ubifs.txt
140 - info on the Unsorted Block Images FileSystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700141udf.txt
142 - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
143ufs.txt
144 - info on the ufs filesystem.
145vfat.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800146 - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700147vfs.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800148 - overview of the Virtual File System.
149xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
150 - info on the XFS Delayed Logging Design.
151xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
152 - info on XFS Self Describing Metadata.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700153xfs.txt
154 - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800155xip.txt
156 - info on execute-in-place for file mappings.