gvfsd-metadata
writes hundreds of gigabytes per month, which is not good for an SSD in the long term.I decided to kill the process and everything kept working just fine.
I couldn't find any useful information online on what it is actually good for. This AskUbuntu discussion suggests it is a "write serializer", but with no further elaboration.
Does anyone know what it is actually good for? What doesn't work without it?