Userspace virtual filesystem software for the GNOME desktop environment
"GVFS" and "GNOME Virtual file system" redirect here. For the previous filesystem GNOME Virtual File System, see GnomeVFS. For VFS for Git (formerly known as Git Virtual File System or GVFS), see Virtual File System for Git.
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GVfs
Stable release
1.54.1[1]
/ 24 May 2024
Repository
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs.git
Operating system
Linux
Platform
GNOME
Type
abstraction layer for the files system
License
LGPL-2.0-or-later
Website
wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs
GVfs (abbreviation for GNOME virtual file system) is GNOME's userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO, a library available in GLib since version 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.
A cause of confusion is the fact that the file system abstraction used by the Linux kernel is also called the virtual file system (VFS) layer. This is however at a lower level.
The GVfs model differs from e.g. GnomeVFS, which it replaces, in that file systems must be mounted before they are used. There is a master daemon (gvfsd) that handles coordinating mounts, and then each mount is (typically) in its own daemon process (although mounts can share daemon process).
GVfs comes with a set of back-ends, including trash support, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via Udev integration, OBEX, MTP and others.[2] GVfs does not seem to support the Files transferred over shell protocol (FISH).
GVfs also contains modules for GIO that implement volume monitors and the GNOME URI scheme handler configuration.
There is a set of arguments to the command line program "gio" that lets you run commands (like cat, ls, stat, mount, etc.) on files in the GVfs mounts.
Attached resources are exposed via a URI syntax, for example smb://server01/gamedata or ftp://username:password@ftp.example.net/public_html, but are also mounted in the traditional manner under ~/.gvfs/ or /run/user/$UID/gvfs or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs directory[3][4] to make them available to applications using standard POSIX commands and I/O.
^"Release 1.54.1". 24 May 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
^GNOME 2.22 Release Notes, 6.1: GVfs and GIO
^"gvfsd-fuse.1 - manned.org". manned.org. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^"Nautilus' remote folder default mount point". askubuntu.com. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
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