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- gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the i/o
- abstractions of gio (a library availible in glib >= 2.15.1). It
- installs several modules that are automatically used by applications
- using the APIs of libgio. There is also fuse support that allows
- applications not using gio to access the gvfs filesystems.
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- The gvfs model differs from e.g. gnome-vfs in that filesystems must
- be mounted before they are used. There is a central daemon (gvfsd)
- that handles coordinting mounts, and then each mount is (typically)
- in its own daemon process (although mounts can share daemon process).
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- gvfs comes with a set of backends, including trash support, sftp,
- smb, http, dav and others. More backends are planned.
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- gvfs also contains modules for gio that implement hal volume monitors
- and the gnome uri-scheme handler configuration.
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- There is a set of command line programs starting with "gvfs-" that
- lets you run commands (like cat, ls, stat, etc) on files in the gvfs
- mounts.
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