GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521976
Display gvfs mount in a specific way
Last modified: 2009-03-09 14:53:19 UTC
With gvfs (on linux at least), all users now have a FUSE mount that appears in the disk list. It's displayed like a normal disk, which might look confusing for many people. We should either hide those mounts, or make them look different.
I agree, this is very confusing and even gives experienced users a bit of a start when they first see it.
I'm not very happy with hardcoding again filesystems to exclude, because the list gets bigger and bigger and is always incomplete. A few months ago, the libgtop linux implementation has switched to a simpler scheme: follow /proc/filesystems. On the other hand, GNU df uses blocksize == 0 to filter out pseudo fs, but gvfs-fuse-daemon fails this.
Would it be possible to drop the statfs implementation for the the FUSE daemon ? It does really makes to have none and to initialize it from /. Or at least set the block count to be 0 so system-monitor, df, etc don't get fooled ?
There's a patch for it and everything: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528848 If someone's willing to review it and make sure it's sane, I'd personally say let's commit it and try to cut through the backlog of these bugs. I don't really know enough about FUSE to know anything about it, though.
While I'm not sure this patch got committed or not, the bug appears to be eliminated in Ubuntu 8.10.
yeah, we're hiding .gvfs mounts these days.