Bug#624507: closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (Bug#624507: fixed in gvfs 1.12.3-4)

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:06:06PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>  gvfs (1.12.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * 06_metadata_nfs.patch: new patch. Disable gvfsd-metadata entirely on
>      remote filesystems. It is better to miss functionality than to
>      hammer the server. Closes: #624507.

Quite possibly a good idea, but note that the my original report
occurred with a local filesystem, not a remote filesystem.

- Josh Triplett