Linux Filesystems API summary

This section contains API-level documentation, mostly taken from the source code itself.

The Linux VFS

The Filesystem types

.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fs.h
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The Directory Cache

.. kernel-doc:: fs/dcache.c
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.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dcache.h
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Inode Handling

.. kernel-doc:: fs/inode.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/bad_inode.c
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Registration and Superblocks

.. kernel-doc:: fs/super.c
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File Locks

.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
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Other Functions

.. kernel-doc:: fs/mpage.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/namei.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/buffer.c
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.. kernel-doc:: block/bio.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/seq_file.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/filesystems.c
   :export:

.. kernel-doc:: fs/fs-writeback.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/block_dev.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/anon_inodes.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/attr.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/d_path.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/dax.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/libfs.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/posix_acl.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/stat.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/sync.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/xattr.c
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The proc filesystem

sysctl interface

.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sysctl.c
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proc filesystem interface

.. kernel-doc:: fs/proc/base.c
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Events based on file descriptors

.. kernel-doc:: fs/eventfd.c
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The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects

.. kernel-doc:: fs/sysfs/file.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/sysfs/symlink.c
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The debugfs filesystem

debugfs interface

.. kernel-doc:: fs/debugfs/inode.c
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.. kernel-doc:: fs/debugfs/file.c
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