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gvfs package

  1. Bug #225361
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 225361

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Calum Mackay (calum-mackay) wrote :

The bug is that doing a stat on .gvfs as root causes an error, which upsets rsync et al.

When .gvfs was in your home dir, that means you would have problems backing up your homedir: rsync would fail when it got the stat error.

That bug is not fixed, but .gvfs has now been moved to /run, which is a separate filesystem, backed by tmpfs (i.e. virtual memory) which you would not normally be backing up.

So, the bug is still there, but you're now much less likely to find it causing you a problem.