Gvfs

GVFS is a subsystem of the GNOME desktop environment (for UNIX-like operating systems), a virtual file system created as an alternative to GnomeVFS . Used since GNOME 2.22 (March 2008) ^{[1] [2]} . GVFS allows you to optionally mount virtual file systems by mounting them through FUSE .

GVFS consists of two parts: a public library loaded with applications that support GIO and GVFS itself, and a set of daemon programs that interact with each other and the GIO module via D-Bus . GVFS creates a virtual file system without creating a user process, unlike GnomeVFS, but somewhat similar to KIO .

Various interfaces are supported, including HAL integration, SFTP , WebDAV , SMB ^[3] , ObexFTP , as well as mounting archives (via libarchive).

Since July 2009, 107 of 113 registered GNOME components have been ported to GIO, as a result of support for GVFS URIs . For components that do not yet support GVFS URIs, the GVFS-Fuse module ^{[4] is used} , which returns absolute paths to applications mounted as directories in the user's home directory .

The transition to GVFS in PCManFM (lxde) was considered ^[5] .

Working with metadata in GVFS may reveal some information about the contents of encrypted partitions ^[6] .