Hi Nils, When did you first notice this problem? Has it been happening over time, or was there a particular version/build of encfs that you were using when you had problems? Or perhaps a particular version of OpenSSL? You may be able to narrow it down by looking at the date stamps of the files that have problems.
If these all came from some particular build, then I would try to reproduce that build if you can. For example, if you found that these problems all occurred when using encfs 1.5 on distribution X, then I would try decoding the files on that distribution (for example by installing the distro into a virtual machine if necessary). Another way to get something like this (although I'd expect the problem to be deeper in the FS hierarchy) is by killing encfs during a directory rename. The "IV chaining mode" option means that a filename encoding depends on the parent directory name. So a directory rename is recursive and may result in the rename of many files. Encfs will automatically undo the rename if a failure occurs, but if it is interrupted, then you would have to manually undo by renaming the directory back to the previous name in order for the filenames to be decoded. hope that helps, Valient On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Nils Stöckmann <accou...@nstck.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using encfs for some time now and (more or less randomly) noticed > there are lots of undecodable files on my computer. > > some (but only a few) of the "files" reported by encfsctl showcruft are > actually > a directory. When I try to backup the encrypted (root) directory to an > external > disc, cp gives warning that some symbolic link in a subfolder of > C-scpegIj1/4zTwD87LA-/..... can not be copied. Thats clear (and no problem) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
