Filesystem Modules

Writing Modules — basic gnome-vfs module concepts
gnome-vfs-method
gnome-vfs-module
gnome-vfs-module-shared
gnome-vfs-module-callback-module-api
gnome-vfs-context
gnome-vfs-transform
gnome-vfs-parse-ls
gnome-vfs-standard-callbacks
gnome-vfs-module-callback

Modules are the mechanism by which GnomeVFS accesses different filesystems, from http, to the local disk, to smb. Module authors must implement a simple set of filesystem operations and can provide varying degrees of service (read-only, read-write, seeking, etc). Modules are dynamically loaded based upon the URI scheme passed into the high-level GnomeVFS APIs.