Update on the current status
* the on disk format is NOT stable.  Changes will likely be made during the 
upstreaming review cycle.
** If you have data stored using the test kernel, the migration process will be 
to copy your data out of ecryptfs, update your kernel and then copy your data 
back in.* the current patch use the xattr storage method
* development on storing long name in file headers isn't stable yet and is 
eating data (it is not included in the above test kernel)
* the on disk format is not stable.  Changes will likely be made during the 
upstreaming review cycle.
** If you have data stored using the test kernel, the migration process will be 
to copy your data out of ecryptfs, update your kernel and then copy your data 
back in.
* the userspace tools have not been updated to make configuring longname 
support easy has not been done yet
** the test kernels have it enabled by default
** to change it to off requires doing a manual mount (remount won't work) 
passing the flag -o ecryptfs_no_longname_xattr

A ppa a kernel containing the patch is being set up at
https://launchpad.net/~jjohansen/+archive/ecryptfs-kernel-dev

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344878

Title:
  file name too long when creating new file (ecryptfs_lookup:
  lookup_one_len() returned [-36] on lower_dentry)

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