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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.
Henrik Austad3cf8ca12014-02-10 14:25:33 -08005Makefile
6 - Makefile for building the filsystems-part of DocBook.
Eric Van Hensbergene03abc02007-02-11 13:21:39 -060079p.txt
8 - 9p (v9fs) is an implementation of the Plan 9 remote fs protocol.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009adfs.txt
10 - info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080011afs.txt
12 - info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070013affs.txt
14 - info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080015autofs4-mount-control.txt
16 - info on device control operations for autofs4 module.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080017automount-support.txt
18 - information about filesystem automount support.
19befs.txt
20 - information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021bfs.txt
22 - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080023btrfs.txt
24 - info for the BTRFS filesystem.
25caching/
26 - directory containing filesystem cache documentation.
Cheng Renquan8136b582010-03-29 19:05:57 +080027ceph.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080028 - info for the Ceph Distributed File System.
29cifs/
30 - directory containing CIFS filesystem documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070031coda.txt
32 - description of the CODA filesystem.
Joel Becker7063fbf2005-12-15 14:29:43 -080033configfs/
34 - directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070035cramfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080036 - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080037debugfs.txt
38 - info on the debugfs filesystem.
39devpts.txt
40 - info on the devpts filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080041directory-locking
42 - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
Mark Fasheh8df08c82005-12-15 14:31:23 -080043dlmfs.txt
44 - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
J. Bruce Fieldse9b1a4d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080045dnotify.txt
46 - info about directory notification in Linux.
Randy Dunlap1e0051a2010-03-10 15:21:57 -080047dnotify_test.c
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080048 - example program for dnotify.
Rob Landleyc811ac52007-09-11 15:23:41 -070049ecryptfs.txt
50 - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
Matt Fleminge913ca72012-10-04 09:57:31 +010051efivarfs.txt
52 - info for the efivarfs filesystem.
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo9f249162009-07-27 13:26:32 -030053exofs.txt
54 - info, usage, mount options, design about EXOFS.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055ext2.txt
56 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080057ext3.txt
58 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
Dave Kleikampfc513a32006-10-11 01:21:25 -070059ext4.txt
60 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
Jaegeuk Kim98e4da82012-11-02 17:05:42 +090061f2fs.txt
62 - info and mount options for the F2FS filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080063fiemap.txt
64 - info on fiemap ioctl.
65files.txt
66 - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080067fuse.txt
68 - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -080069gfs2-glocks.txt
70 - info on the Global File System 2 - Glock internal locking rules.
71gfs2-uevents.txt
72 - info on the Global File System 2 - uevents.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070073gfs2.txt
74 - info on the Global File System 2.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080075hfs.txt
76 - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070077hfsplus.txt
78 - info on the Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070079hpfs.txt
80 - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070081inotify.txt
82 - info on the powerful yet simple file change notification system.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070083isofs.txt
84 - info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
85jfs.txt
86 - info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields98257af2007-09-30 22:18:55 -040087locks.txt
88 - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
Joern Engel5db53f32009-11-20 20:13:39 +010089logfs.txt
90 - info on the LogFS flash filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields4f3b19c2007-09-24 18:52:09 -040091mandatory-locking.txt
92 - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093ncpfs.txt
94 - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -040095nfs/
96 - nfs-related documentation.
Ryusuke Konishi962281a2009-04-06 19:01:20 -070097nilfs2.txt
98 - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099ntfs.txt
100 - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -0800101ocfs2.txt
102 - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800103omfs.txt
104 - info on the Optimized MPEG FileSystem.
105path-lookup.txt
106 - info on path walking and name lookup locking.
107pohmelfs/
108 - directory containing pohmelfs filesystem documentation.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800109porting
110 - various information on filesystem porting.
111proc.txt
112 - info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800113qnx6.txt
114 - info on the QNX6 filesystem.
115quota.txt
116 - info on Quota subsystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800117ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
118 - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
Tom Zanussie88d78f2006-08-27 01:23:47 -0700119relay.txt
120 - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700121romfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800122 - description of the ROMFS filesystem.
Jonathan Corbetded49262008-03-28 11:19:56 -0600123seq_file.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800124 - how to use the seq_file API.
J. Bruce Fieldsd3cf91d02008-02-07 00:13:35 -0800125sharedsubtree.txt
126 - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800127spufs.txt
128 - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800129squashfs.txt
130 - info on the squashfs filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800131sysfs-pci.txt
132 - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800133sysfs-tagging.txt
134 - info on sysfs tagging to avoid duplicates.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800135sysfs.txt
136 - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700137sysv-fs.txt
138 - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800139tmpfs.txt
140 - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800141ubifs.txt
142 - info on the Unsorted Block Images FileSystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700143udf.txt
144 - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
145ufs.txt
146 - info on the ufs filesystem.
147vfat.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800148 - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700149vfs.txt
Fabian Frederick50114c12014-01-23 15:55:28 -0800150 - overview of the Virtual File System.
151xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
152 - info on the XFS Delayed Logging Design.
153xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
154 - info on XFS Self Describing Metadata.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700155xfs.txt
156 - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800157xip.txt
158 - info on execute-in-place for file mappings.