Comment 5 for bug 225361

I'd argue that, based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance, this bug's Importance should be Medium. As described in the duplicate I raised, things like automatically checking the success of a daily tar(1) now fails because it always exits with a non-zero status instead of only rarely:

For ~/.gvfs to not follow normal Unix semantics is a major pain. As root, one can normally tar up a user's home directory, perhaps as part of a daily backup regime, without problems. That's the point of running it as root. Since the introduction of ~/.gvfs:

    $ sudo tar cf /dev/null .gvfs .bash_profile
    tar: .gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
    $ echo $?
    2
    $

So checking the exit status of tar for any backups problems now fails. Every day.

I'd argue tar is pretty core and it's having a medium or severe impact, as outlined under Medium.