.gvfs

[John Watlington]

When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when
Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the
home directory (even as root).

It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's  
extensions.

wad

On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>>
>> What is this "file" in /home/olpc that refuses to be listed ?
>>
>> It seems to be associated with the "Gnome Virtual File System".
>>
>> Is it necessary ?
>
> Its a sort of mount point for gvfs filesystems (gvfs replaces
> gnome-vfs) and it should go away if you remove gvfs support but then
> any gnome apps wouldn't work for things like network shares and the
> like. So I don't suppose its necessary but then what is it hurting?
>
> Peter