~/.gvfs is annoying for sysadmins

[travis+ml-ubuntu-users at subspacefield.org]

I can't even stat the directory (actually a mount point) as root.

Trying to ls people's home directories (as root) gives an error.

rsync as root bitches because the directory isn't stat-able, and due
to that error, refuses to do other things, like delete files from the
target.

Odd that a normal user can see it, but root can't.

I can't lsattr it, either.  Even as the user who owns it - I get a
"inappropriate ioctl for device"

How am I supposed to do remote backups if I can't talk to the file
system without errors?

And how am I to figure out where all the mountpoints for these things
might be?  Do my backup scripts have to parse /etc/passwd and extract
everyone's home directory, and then build an exclude list dynamically?

I guess I could avoid crossing file system boundaries, but that's
whitelisting, and it works great until you add a new file system one
day and forget to add it to your backup whitelist.
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