On: GCFS: a Garbage-Collected Filesystem for Linux

[drdaeman]

GNU/Linux systems do this too with GnomeVFS/GVFS and KIO. Unfortunately, they are only usable if all applications you use that are aware of them.

This is why filesystems should be connected to some central place (in GNU/Linux that's the kernel VFS switch).

[ciupicri → drdaeman]

The latest GNOME doesn't have this limitation because it uses FUSE. Any application, e.g. vim can use those files.

[drdaeman → ciupicri]

Except for a problem, that you have to mount (by accessing) GVFS-filesystem first. If you're using Nautilus to navigate to the file and start vim — it's fine, but it won't work for any non-GIO file browsing (bash, mc, emacs-dired, gmplayer, ...)