On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:30:41PM -0700, Rajouri Jammu wrote: > I'm interested in running ecryptfs on networked file systems. > > I noticed the following comment in the sources. > > > /** > > * This is a temporary hack to prevent inadvertent mounting on lower > > * filesystems that are known to be currently incompatible with > > * eCryptfs. This mainly includes networked filesystems. > > */ > > Can someone please let me know why ecryptfs is not compatible with > NFS?
Here is a short laundry list: - Lookup intents have been problematic with stacked filesystems on NFS. - writepages() NULL ptr deref, which might have a fix: - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06097.html - Unlinks keep sillyrenamed files around until eCryptfs is unmounted. I have no idea why. Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 If this is flashing then you're a winner!
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