linux/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
Eric Biggers 6ff2deb2e8 fs-verity: add a documentation file
Add a documentation file for fs-verity, covering:

- Introduction
- Use cases
- User API
    - FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY
    - FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY
    - FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
- Accessing verity files
- File measurement computation
    - Merkle tree
    - fs-verity descriptor
- Built-in signature verification
- Filesystem support
    - ext4
    - f2fs
- Implementation details
    - Verifying data
        - Pagecache
        - Block device based filesystems
- Userspace utility
- Tests
- FAQ

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
2019-07-28 16:59:15 -07:00

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Filesystems in the Linux kernel
===============================
This under-development manual will, some glorious day, provide
comprehensive information on how the Linux virtual filesystem (VFS) layer
works, along with the filesystems that sit below it. For now, what we have
can be found below.
Core VFS documentation
======================
See these manuals for documentation about the VFS layer itself and how its
algorithms work.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
vfs
path-lookup
api-summary
splice
Filesystem support layers
=========================
Documentation for the support code within the filesystem layer for use in
filesystem implementations.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
journalling
fscrypt
fsverity