gvfs total wierdness

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 20:50 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> There's a file named .gvfs in my home directory that is totally
> unaccessible.  Here's a couple of tries, both run as root:
> 
> # ls -l .gvfs
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
> 
> # ls -lA
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 jonrysh jonrysh     181 Aug 17 22:16 .gtk-custom-papers
> -rw-r--r--   1 jonrysh jonrysh      89 Dec  6  2007 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> d?????????   ? ?       ?             ?            ? .gvfs
> drwx------   2 jonrysh jonrysh    4096 Nov 27 14:25 .icedteaplugin
> drwxrwxr-x   2 jonrysh jonrysh    4096 Dec  4  2007 .icons
> ...
> 
> What is this file?  Should I delete it?  Can I delete it?

This has been discussed several times on the list. Check the archives
(hint: it's a mount point for a FUSE filesystem used by Gnome).

poc