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+dfvfs (Digital Forensics Virtual File System - python module)
+
+This package provides read-only access to file-system objects from various 
+storage media types and file formats. The goal of dfVFS is to provide a generic
+interface for accessing file-system objects, for which it uses several 
+back-ends that provide the actual implementation of the various storage media 
+types, volume systems and file systems.
+
+Supported:
+
+    EWF (EWF-E01, EWF-Ex01, EWF-S01) 
+    QCOW version 1, 2 
+    Storage Media device 
+    (split) Storage Media RAW 
+    VHD 
+    VMDK 
+
+Note that at the moment differential images are not supported.
+Volume systems
+
+Supported:
+
+    APM 
+    BitLocker (BDE) 
+    GPT 
+    MBR 
+    VSS 
+
+Planned:
+
+    FileVault2 (CoreStorage) 
+    LDM
+    LUKS 
+    Linux LVM version 1, 2 
+    Software Raid 
+
+File systems
+
+Supported file systems:
+
+    ext version 2, 3, 4 
+    FAT 
+    HFS, HFS+, HFSX 
+    NTFS version 3 
+    UFS version 1, 2 
+
+TODO add more detail here regarding FAT and other supported FS
+Compressed stream file types
+
+Supported:
+
+    bzip2
+    gzip
+    zlib (both zlib-DEFLATE and raw-DEFLATE) 
+
+Archive file types
+
+Supported:
+
+    tar
+    zip