Update: I transferred the same data from the eCryptfs folder to the EncFS folder.
The results of statting about 50k files (twice in a row) are the following: eCryptfs : 16 minutes ! EncFS : 20 seconds ! Clearly there must be some fundamental differences between the two designs. eCryptfs has some features that EncFS does not have, but performance- wise, the differences can be astonishing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587408 Title: Ecryptfs is very slow at listing directories with many files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/587408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
