Well if you're just trying to reproduce in a testcase, you can probably just do a custom ecryptfs mount as root:
mkdir testcrypt, testplain cat > testme.sh << EOF mount -t ecryptfs <options> testcrypt testplain echo ab >> testplain/ab umount testplain EOF chmod ugo+x testme.sh for i in `seq 1 100`; do ./testme.sh done On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Erik Carstensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know of any way to remount an ecryptfs mount without first having > to log out? That would suffice as a workaround most of the time, and > would make this bug a lot less annoying for me. > > -- > ecryptfs sometimes seems to add trailing garbage to encrypted files > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs > Developers, which is subscribed to eCryptfs. > > Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Triaged > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Quite frequently (about once per month), a file in my ecryptfs-encrypted home > directory gets a few KiBs of extra trailing garbage bytes (it's usually > padded up to about 12 KiB). I have only noticed the error in git repositories > so far, probably because git creates a huge number of files, and because it > doesn't tend to ignore trailing garbage anywhere. > > The trailing garbage usually consists mostly of zero bytes; sometimes I have > also seen it contain a copy of parts of the original file. > > If I re-mount the ecryptfs volume (by logging out and logging in again), the > trailing garbage always disappears; this is why I think it's caused by an > ecryptfs bug. I cannot rule out a faulty RAM, either (I have only reproduced > it on my laptop, which doesn't have ECC RAM). > > I'm using x86-64 Ubuntu 9.10, my ecryptfs volume resides on an ext4 partition. > > I understand that it's impossible for you to reproduce the problem given this > report, but I'm willing to put some effort in tracking down the cause of > this. Do you have any ideas on how I can extract useful debugging information > the next time the problem occurs? > > > -- ecryptfs sometimes seems to add trailing garbage to encrypted files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
