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
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