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1 | =============================== |
| 2 | Filesystems in the Linux kernel | |
| 3 | =============================== | |
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5 | This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide |
| 6 | comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer | |
| 7 | works, along with the filesystems that sit below it. For now, what we have | |
| 8 | can be found below. | |
| 90f9f118 | 9 | |
| 4064174b | 10 | Core VFS documentation |
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11 | ====================== |
| 12 | ||
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13 | See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its |
| 14 | algorithms work. | |
| 90f9f118 | 15 | |
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16 | .. toctree:: |
| 17 | :maxdepth: 2 | |
| 90f9f118 | 18 | |
| af96c1e3 | 19 | vfs |
| 7c116d22 | 20 | path-lookup |
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21 | api-summary |
| 22 | splice | |
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23 | locking |
| 24 | directory-locking | |
| 90f9f118 | 25 | |
| 4064174b | 26 | Filesystem support layers |
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27 | ========================= |
| 28 | ||
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29 | Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in |
| 30 | filesystem implementations. | |
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31 | |
| 32 | .. toctree:: | |
| 4064174b | 33 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 942104a2 | 34 | |
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35 | journalling |
| 36 | fscrypt |