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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2008-02-04 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> + * README: + Add some info in README + +2008-02-04 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> + * daemon/gvfsbackendsftp.c: Make name of sftp root be "/ on <host>" (#511515) @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the i/o +abstractions of gio (a library availible in glib >= 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. + + +The gvfs model differs from e.g. gnome-vfs in that filesystems must +be mounted before they are used. There is a central daemon (gvfsd) +that handles coordinting mounts, and then each mount is (typically) +in its own daemon process (although mounts can share daemon process). + +gvfs comes with a set of backends, including trash support, sftp, +smb, http, dav and others. More backends are planned. + +gvfs also contains modules for gio that implement hal volume monitors +and the gnome uri-scheme handler configuration. + +There is a set of command line programs starting with "gvfs-" that +lets you run commands (like cat, ls, stat, etc) on files in the gvfs +mounts. |