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Microsoft employee Saeed Noursalehi announced the decision to rename Microsoft's Git Virtual File System (GVFS) due to a conflict with the GNOME Virtual File System (Gvfs) project:
We’ve heard the feedback, so lets use this issue to come up with a new name for this project. As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things. I'm no exception to that pattern, so I was thinking we could all put some sensible suggestions into this issue. I’ll then compile a short list and then we’ll all get to vote on the new name.
Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/72
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Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday June 07 2018, @11:43AM
The kernel doesn't know how to mount all file systems, especially things that aren't traditional file systems. GNOME virtual file system can mount, for example, an SSH server using SFTP. Even if file systems are made for FUSE, as I understand it, mounting may available only to the superuser, and a sudoer might not be available at all times to authorize a particular mount or unmount. In addition, what facilities exist to port a file system made for FUSE to operating systems using other kernels, such as FreeBSD or WSL?