[poky] Warning - don't use eCryptFS

Darren Hart dvhart at linux.intel.com
Wed Dec 8 10:06:33 PST 2010


On 11/30/2010 07:05 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> FYI I recently had some fairly serious problems with poky and the
> "encrypted home directory" function in Ubuntu, which uses eCryptFS.
> Problems I experienced included:

I've also experienced git tree corruption when using eCryptFS for my
home directory. It's definitely on my "avoid like the plague" list. I
had no such issues while using the /etc/crypttab mechanism (I forget
what the right name is for that). But Ubuntu broke that with Upstart (at
least for me).

-- 
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel



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