Free vfs software for linux

Download Manager project is a GNOME download manager.
Download Manager (also known as downman) is a suite of programs that assist with downloading files. It features a GNOME 2 GUI.
Download Manager suite
downmand: a daemon that takes care of downloading files
downman: a command line client to downmand to add files for download
downman-gmonitor: a little window where you can drop urls
gdownman: (aka gnome download manager), a gui client to control downloads
Main features:
- Gnome 2 GUI
- Multiple projects
- Speed limit for each download
- Speed limit for each project
Enhancements:
- Moved to gnome-vfs as the backend for the transfers.
- s/download/transfer in the daemon.
- Servers support, you can now limit the amount of connections to a server.
- Ability to show/hide toolbar and statusbar in the GUI
- Correctly update download speedlimit in the GUI
- Show mime-type icons with the filename
- Remove use of List (use GList instead)
- Fixes & cleanups

Gnome2::VFS is a Perl interface to the 2.x series of the GNOME VFS library.

SYNOPSIS

use Gnome2::VFS;

sub die_already {
my ($action) = @_;
die("An error occured while $action.n");
}

die_already("initializing GNOME VFS") unless (Gnome2::VFS -> init());

my $source = "http://www.perldoc.com/about.html";
my ($result, $handle, $info);

# Open a connection to Perldoc.
($result, $handle) = Gnome2::VFS -> open($source, "read");
die_already("opening connection to $source")
unless ($result eq "ok");

# Get the file information.
($result, $info) = $handle -> get_file_info("default");
die_already("retrieving information about $source")
unless ($result eq "ok");

# Read the content.
my $bytes = $info -> { size };

my $bytes_read = 0;
my $buffer = "";

do {
my ($tmp_buffer, $tmp_bytes_read);

($result, $tmp_bytes_read, $tmp_buffer) =
$handle -> read($bytes - $bytes_read);

$buffer .= $tmp_buffer;
$bytes_read += $tmp_bytes_read;
} while ($result eq "ok" and $bytes_read < $bytes);

die_already("reading $bytes bytes from $source")
unless ($result eq "ok" && $bytes_read == $bytes);

# Close the connection.
$result = $handle -> close();
die_already("closing connection to $source")
unless ($result eq "ok");

# Create and open the target.
my $target = "/tmp/" . $info -> { name };
my $uri = Gnome2::VFS::URI -> new($target);

($result, $handle) = $uri -> create("write", 1, 0644);
die_already("creating $target") unless ($result eq "ok");

# Write to it.
my $bytes_written;

($result, $bytes_written) = $handle -> write($buffer, $bytes);
die_already("writing $bytes bytes to $target")
unless ($result eq "ok" && $bytes_written == $bytes);

# Close the target.
$result = $handle -> close();
die_already("closing $target") unless ($result eq "ok");

Gnome2::VFS -> shutdown();

gnome-vfs is a Filesystem Abstraction library. It provides an abstraction layer for the reading, writing and execution of files. It is primarily used by the Nautilus file manager and other 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 (VFS). This is however at a lower level.
Whats New in 2.19.3 Development Release:
- Export modules directory in pkg-config files
- Fix crash in gnome_vfs_xfer
- Add GNOME_VFS_DIRECTORY_VISIT_IGNORE_RECURSE_ERROR flag
- Dont resolve non-mdns hosts when resolving mDNS service names
- Workaround issue with mDNS and link-local ipv6 addresses

FlyBird project is a two-panel fully professional file manager supporting tab based console and gnome-vfs (that allows you to use http, ftp, samba and other commonly used protocols).
Main features:
- tab based console;
- gnome-vfs support (network support under development);
- file change monitoring;
- threads for directory loading;
- some Nautilus plugins support.

Filecentral is a filesystem browser and file manager. It uses the navigational model of the OSX finder, but tries to integrate into the GNOME Desktop. It uses gnome-vfs and is thus also able to manage remote files.

Filecentral is programmed in C, the best programming language to shoot yourself in the foot.

ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2, GTK tree, and optional Mozilla browser views.
Enhancements:
- This release adds the ability to drop files from f-spot onto a directory to initiate a copy.

ngacl project is an effort to give Linux and its filesystems a full blown ACL system, similar to that used by NFSv4 and Windows.
With this software, you have 13 different access rights, dynamic inheritance, and audit ACLs. The implementation is filesystem-independent because the kernel parts are an LSM module.
In addition, there is a Samba-VFS module that enables you to alter ACLs with the Windows ACL editor.
Enhancements:
- This release adds working audit ACLs, stability, and semantic enhancements.

Nariva project is a search service using Apache Lucene, VFS, and XML-RPC.
Nariva is an application which aims to provide cross- platform, open API search functionality targeted at desktops. It uses Apache Lucene to perform the indexing and searching functionality and also exposes the Apache Lucene API as an XML-RPC service (provided using Apache XML- RPC).
Files on the local file system are monitored using a sandbox component called Commons Virtual Filesystem (VFS). Nariva ties all these projects together to provide a simple, fast, cross platform, desktop search solution.
Main features:
- Runs cross platform - Written in Java.
- Provides a webservice interface using XML-RPC so its easy to create custom GUI client.
- Low priority search service thread reduces noticable CPU usage.
- Can monitor more than one folder at a time.
- Extendable by using custom index classes set in preferences.
- Provides a default text extraction class for indexing unrecognized file types.
- Built in support for indexing and searching text, html, pdf and maf files.
- MAF Search GUI integrates into Firefox search engine list.
- By default only accepts connections from localhost (127.0.0.1).
- Search on specific fields or use full text search with boolean, fuzzy and proximity matches - Provided by Lucene.
- Re-indexes changed documents in monitored folders dynamically.