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NAME¶
gvfs - GIO virtual file system
DESCRIPTION¶
GIO provides a VFS API to GLib applications. It includes a 'local' implementation using POSIX. gvfs provides implementations that go beyond that and allow to access files and storage using many protocols, such as ftp, http, sftp, dav, nfs, etc. It also provides support for trash folders, for cd burning and for monitoring interesting devices and volumes on the computer.
Applications use gvfs indirectly, by means of GIO loading the gvfs module that implements the GIO extension points. The gvfs support for volume monitoring is included in a separate loadable module.
The actual gvfs implementation is distributed over a number of processes. None of these are expected to be started from the commandline, except for debugging purposes.
Main processes:
Volume monitors:
Mount backends:
ENVIRONMENT¶
GIO_USE_VFS
GIO_USE_VOLUME_MONITOR
FILES¶
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/gvfs/mounts
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors
SEE ALSO¶
GIO documentation[1], gvfsd(1), gvfsd-fuse(1), gvfsd-metadata(1)
NOTES¶
- 1.
- GIO documentation
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