Package: cryfs
Version: 0.9.7-2
Severity: normal
If the cryfs filesystem is mounted with noatime, it should not modify files’
access times when they are read:
$ mount | grep cryfs
cryfs@/home/kiko/Dropbox/safe/.cryfs on /home/kiko/Dropbox.safe type fuse.cryfs
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000,allow_other)
^^^^^^^
$ stat Dropbox.safe/.placeholder
File: Dropbox.safe/.placeholder
Size: 60 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 2fh/47d Inode: 41 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ kiko) Gid: ( 1000/ kiko)
Access: 2017-09-22 09:30:51.261363123 +0200
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Modify: 2010-06-10 10:38:53.000000000 +0200
Change: 2017-09-20 19:17:16.072335331 +0200
Birth: -
$ cat Dropbox.safe/.placeholder
# DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE
# This file is a simple placeholder
$ stat Dropbox.safe/.placeholder
File: Dropbox.safe/.placeholder
Size: 60 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 2fh/47d Inode: 41 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ kiko) Gid: ( 1000/ kiko)
Access: 2017-09-22 09:48:34.843560115 +0200
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Modify: 2010-06-10 10:38:53.000000000 +0200
Change: 2017-09-20 19:17:16.072335331 +0200
Birth: -
Obviously, the corresponding block file in the encrypted directory also gets
modified (and needlesly synced to Dropbox).
Thanks.
--
Kiko
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cryfs depends on:
ii fuse 2.9.7-1
ii libc6 2.24-17
ii libcrypto++6 5.6.4-8
ii libcurl3 7.55.1-1
ii libfuse2 2.9.7-1
ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-6
ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-6
cryfs recommends no packages.
cryfs suggests no packages.
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