On Friday, July 8 at 22:50 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
> Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by
> reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the
> in-kernel ecryptfs these days?
Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are using works
for you why not stick with it. I still prefer encfs, although I have
admittedly never tried ecryptfs, for the following reasons:
* It's FUSE, completely userspace and requires no kernel support
(other than FUSE) and no special privileges to mount (other than
fusermount).
* You can have multiple layers of encryption on on source
directory. E.g. two different passwords can give you two
different views of the filesystem.
* In the documentation at least, it says when you upgrade ecryptfs
you should first copy the files from the old ecryptfs to an
unencrypted filesystem, and then copy it to the new ecryptfs.
That seems like something some people won't want to do.
