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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).
19cifs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080020 - description of the CIFS filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021coda.txt
22 - description of the CODA filesystem.
Joel Becker7063fbf2005-12-15 14:29:43 -080023configfs/
24 - directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070025cramfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080026 - info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
27dentry-locking.txt
28 - info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080029directory-locking
30 - info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
Mark Fasheh8df08c82005-12-15 14:31:23 -080031dlmfs.txt
32 - info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
J. Bruce Fieldse9b1a4d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080033dnotify.txt
34 - info about directory notification in Linux.
Rob Landleyc811ac52007-09-11 15:23:41 -070035ecryptfs.txt
36 - docs on eCryptfs: stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070037ext2.txt
38 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080039ext3.txt
40 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
Dave Kleikampfc513a32006-10-11 01:21:25 -070041ext4.txt
42 - info, mount options and specifications for the Ext4 filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080043files.txt
44 - info on file management in the Linux kernel.
45fuse.txt
46 - info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070047gfs2.txt
48 - info on the Global File System 2.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080049hfs.txt
50 - info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070051hfsplus.txt
52 - info on the Macintosh HFSPlus Filesystem for Linux.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070053hpfs.txt
54 - info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
Denis Cheng5d4b3552007-10-16 23:31:16 -070055inotify.txt
56 - info on the powerful yet simple file change notification system.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070057isofs.txt
58 - info and mount options for the ISO 9660 (CDROM) filesystem.
59jfs.txt
60 - info and mount options for the JFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields98257af2007-09-30 22:18:55 -040061locks.txt
62 - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
J. Bruce Fields4f3b19c2007-09-24 18:52:09 -040063mandatory-locking.txt
64 - info on the Linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070065ncpfs.txt
66 - info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
J. Bruce Fieldsdc7a0812009-10-27 14:41:35 -040067nfs/
68 - nfs-related documentation.
Ryusuke Konishi962281a2009-04-06 19:01:20 -070069nilfs2.txt
70 - info and mount options for the NILFS2 filesystem.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070071ntfs.txt
72 - info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
Mark Fashehccd979b2005-12-15 14:31:24 -080073ocfs2.txt
74 - info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080075porting
76 - various information on filesystem porting.
77proc.txt
78 - info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
79ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
80 - info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
81reiser4.txt
82 - info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
Tom Zanussie88d78f2006-08-27 01:23:47 -070083relay.txt
84 - info on relay, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085romfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080086 - description of the ROMFS filesystem.
J. Bruce Fields8bcd1cc2008-04-07 15:59:04 -040087rpc-cache.txt
88 - introduction to the caching mechanisms in the sunrpc layer.
Jonathan Corbetded49262008-03-28 11:19:56 -060089seq_file.txt
90 - how to use the seq_file API
J. Bruce Fieldsd3cf91d2008-02-07 00:13:35 -080091sharedsubtree.txt
92 - a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093smbfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -080094 - info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Win 3.11 and NT).
95spufs.txt
96 - info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
97sysfs-pci.txt
98 - info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
99sysfs.txt
100 - info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700101sysv-fs.txt
102 - info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800103tmpfs.txt
104 - info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105udf.txt
106 - info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
107ufs.txt
108 - info on the ufs filesystem.
109vfat.txt
110 - info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
111vfs.txt
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800112 - overview of the Virtual File System
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700113xfs.txt
114 - info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
Jesper Juhl50fc9992006-03-28 01:56:43 -0800115xip.txt
116 - info on execute-in-place for file mappings.