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{{short description|Userspace virtual filesystem software for the GNOME desktop environment}}{{redirect-multi|2|GVFS|GNOME Virtual file system|the previous filesystem GNOME Virtual File System|GnomeVFS|VFS for Git (formerly known as Git Virtual File System or GVFS)|Virtual File System for Git}}{{primary sources|date=February 2017}}- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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File:X-gvfs-show.png|thumb|The option x-gvfs-show for the gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor process determines whether a mounted device is shown or notWEB,weblink udisks2/what-is-shown.txt, . in GNOME Files. Screenshot of GNOME DisksGNOME DisksAlong with generally useful APIs such as networking and D-Bus support, GIO also provides a VFS API to applications. GVfs provides implementations that go beyond that and allow to access files and storage using many protocols. GVfs provides implementations for various network file systems as loadable modules. Additionally GVfs also provides support for trash, network or recent folders, for CD burning and for monitoring interesting devices and volumes on the computer.The goal of GVfs has been to overcome the shortcomings of GnomeVFSWEB,weblink Plans for gnome-vfs replacement, mail.gnome.org, 18 April 2018, and provide an API that is so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX calls. Among other things that means using GObject. It also means not cloning the POSIX API, but providing higher-level, document-centric interfaces. GTK can directly use it, e.g. in the filechooser.Applications use GVfs indirectly, by means of GIO loading the GVfs module that implements the GIO extension points. The GVfs main daemon gvfsd spawns further mount daemons for each individual connection. The GVfs support for volume monitoring is included in a separate loadable module.The actual GVfs implementation is distributed over a number of processes.GVfs can use FUSE to mount its VFS directly onto the filesystem.WEB,weblink gvfs status report, mail.gnome.org, 18 April 2018, It consists of two parts:"Using GNOMEvfs to manipulate files", Linux.com- a shared library which is loaded by applications supporting GIO
- GVfs itself, which contains a collection of daemons which communicate with each other and the GIO module over D-Bus.
Hot plugging
Devices connected over eSATA or USB are (supposed to be) physically hot-pluggable. When a device is physically connected to or physically removed from the computer system, the Linux kernel notices and sends out an event to user-space. systemd-udevd receives such events and responds to them according to its quite comprehensive configuration:- manages the special file system devfs mounted to /dev, hence systemd-udevd dynamically creates and removes device nodes from /dev, it also loads drivers as necessary at boot time
- in case of a block device systemd-udevd notifies udisksd, and gvfsd and gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.WEB,weblink Modern Mounting with Udisks2, 2014-05-28, David Zeuthen,
Packaging
In Debian the GVfs is packaged into four packages: gvfs, gvfs-daemons, gvfs-bin and gvfs-backends.See also
- GNOME Files, the file manager for GNOME desktops, allows users to interact with GVfs filesystems
- Thunar, the file manager for the Xfce desktop environment, also provides filesytem abstraction using the GVfs library
- KIO, a similar facility for KDE systems
- Archivemount, a virtual filesystem implementation specifically for accessing archive files
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