GNOME VFS

GNOME VFS is short for GNOME Virtual File System. It provides an abstraction for the reading, writing and execution of files. It is primarily used by the Nautilus file manager and other List of GNOME applications.

A cause of confusion is the fact that the file system abstraction used by the Linux kernel is also called the virtual file system (Virtual file system). This is however at a lower level.

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*[http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/ GnomeVFS - Filesystem Abstraction library documentation]