Dear fellow encfs users,I have just joined this mailing list, hoping to find help restoring access to encfs-encrypted files on a server. I do not know exactly when and how my setup stopped working (it was a few days ago), so I am just going to describe the problem and my previously-working setup.
Problem:When I have encfs mount my encrypted folder, it does not show any signs of error. The decrypted (if even mounted?) folder is completely empty, though. Details:
- The mount shows up in /proc/mounts.- There does not appear to be any data loss in the encrypted directory. (Meaning it is full of cryptic files (apart from .encfs.xml) and the overall size according to 'du -sch' is reasonable.)
Setup:I have my encrypted files on a server, with encfs running on my local machine (laptop), chained up with sshfs. Both encfs and sshfs are only activated on demand, which is done with the "--ondemand" switch for encfs and the autosshfs scripts* for sshfs. This has been working very well for me for several months, except that both encfs and sshfs sometimes break after the laptop wakes up from suspension or the internet connection is severed in another way. In those cases, it has always worked to just kill and restart encfs. (Maybe this was a mistake?)
* https://github.com/hellekin/autosshfsTo test if the encfs-sshfs-chain could be the source of the problem, I tried to mount the encfs folder directly on the server. The result was the same as over sshfs.
My Laptop runs on Arch Linux, encfs version 1.7.4. The server runs on Debian Linux 6.0.8, encfs version 1.7.2.
Further testing:I just tried to create a new encfs-encrypted folder on the server from my laptop over sshfs. There were no error neither messages in creating the folder, nor in mounting it. But when I write a file into the decrypted folder (on the laptop), it is not written in the encrypted folder on the server, but on the local disk. In fact, there isn't even a encfs.xml or anything else in the folder on the server.
Encfs works nicely on my local machine.I have not yet tried to copy the encrypted volume from the server to my laptop to see if I can mount it locally, because it is quiet large. It would be possible to do that, though.
Any ideas? Carlos
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