[Bug 623087] Re: ecryptfs file permissions broken with kernel 2.6.36-rc2

[Kalle Valo]

Rocko <rockorequin at hotmail.com> writes:

> But could this commit have resulted in the data loss that Kalle Valo
> reported? It seems to be just related to the file
> name/permissions/ownerships/size information and it made writing to (and
> reading of) files with encrypted filenames impossible.

Difficult to be sure. But as I saw corruption only in my home directory,
not anywhere else, and immeadiately during the first boot of rc1, it's
very difficult to believe that something else than ecryptfs would have
caused this.

After fsck and booting to an older kernel I saw some of the directories
twice in my home directory, for example Documents and Downloads. I
assume gnome created a new set of directories because it wasn't able to
open the encrypted ones and that caused the corruption. But I'm making
wild guesses here and can be way off.

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Kalle Valo

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ecryptfs file permissions broken with kernel 2.6.36-rc2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623087
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