diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 981ddbd..7e8ed35 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -26,3 +26,8 @@ test-verbose:
 .PHONY: benchmark
 benchmark:
 	sudo tests/benchmark.pl /var/tmp
+
+.PHONY: benchmark-reverse
+benchmark-reverse:
+	tests/benchmark-reverse.pl /var/tmp
+	tests/benchmark-reverse.pl /var/tmp --nocache
diff --git a/tests/benchmark-reverse.pl b/tests/benchmark-reverse.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1ba214c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/benchmark-reverse.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Benchmark EncFS reverse mode
+
+use File::Temp;
+use warnings;
+
+require("tests/common.pl");
+
+sub mount_encfs_reverse {
+    my $p = shift;
+    my $c = shift;
+    my $opts = shift;
+
+    my $cmdline = "./encfs/encfs --extpass=\"echo test\" --standard $p $c --reverse $opts 2>&1 > /dev/null";
+    # print "mounting encfs: $cmdline\n";
+    my $status = system($cmdline);
+    if ( $status != 0 ) { die("command returned error: $status"); }
+    waitForFile("$p/.encfs6.xml") or die("Control file not created");
+
+    # print "encfs --reverse mounted on $c\n";
+}
+
+sub cleanup {
+    print "cleaning up... ";
+    my $workingDir = shift;
+    for(my $i=0; $i<2; $i++) {
+      system("fusermount -u $workingDir/c") == 0 and last;
+      system("lsof $workingDir/c");
+      printf "retrying... ";
+      sleep(1);
+    }
+    system("rm -Rf $workingDir 2> /dev/null");
+    print "done\n";
+}
+
+sub main {
+
+  my $prefix     = shift(@ARGV) or die("Missing DIR argument");
+  my $workingDir = mkdtemp("$prefix/encfs-performance-XXXX")
+      || die("Could not create temporary directory");
+
+  my $c = "$workingDir/c";
+  my $p = "$workingDir/p";
+
+  my $opts = "";
+  if ( @ARGV > 0 ) {
+    $opts = shift(@ARGV)
+  };
+  
+  mkdir($c);
+  mkdir($p);
+
+  dl_linuxgz();
+  our $linuxgz;
+  system("tar xzf $linuxgz -C $p");
+
+  mount_encfs_reverse($p, $c, $opts);
+
+  my @results = ();
+  stopwatch_start("rsync 1 (initial copy)");
+    system("rsync -a $c/ $workingDir/rsync-target");
+  stopwatch_stop(\@results);
+  
+  stopwatch_start("rsync 2 (no changes)");
+    system("rsync -a $c/ $workingDir/rsync-target");
+  stopwatch_stop(\@results);
+  
+  cleanup($workingDir);
+}
+
+main();
diff --git a/tests/benchmark.pl b/tests/benchmark.pl
index 0e134a4..f67f30d 100755
--- a/tests/benchmark.pl
+++ b/tests/benchmark.pl
@@ -2,21 +2,11 @@
 
 # Benchmark EncFS against eCryptfs
 
-use Time::HiRes qw( time );
 use File::Temp;
 use warnings;
-use feature 'state';
 
 require("tests/common.pl");
 
-# Download linux-3.0.tar.gz unless it already exists ("-c" flag)
-sub dl {
-    our $linuxgz = "/var/tmp/linux-3.0.tar.gz";
-    print "# downloading linux-3.0.tar.gz (92MiB)... ";
-    system("wget -nv -c https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.0.tar.gz -O $linuxgz");
-    print "done\n";
-}
-
 # Create a new empty working directory
 sub newWorkingDir {
     my $prefix     = shift;
@@ -76,42 +66,6 @@ sub mount_ecryptfs {
     return $p;
 }
 
-# Returns integer $milliseconds from float $seconds
-sub ms {
-    my $seconds      = shift;
-    my $milliseconds = int( $seconds * 1000 );
-    return $milliseconds;
-}
-
-# stopwatch_start($name)
-# start the stopwatch for test "$name"
-sub stopwatch_start {
-    stopwatch(1, shift);
-}
-
-# stopwatch_stop(\@results)
-# stop the stopwatch, save time into @results
-sub stopwatch_stop {
-    stopwatch(0, shift);
-}
-
-sub stopwatch {
-    state $start_time;
-    state $name;
-    my $start = shift;
-
-    if($start) {
-        $name = shift;
-        print("# $name... ");
-        $start_time = time();
-    } else {
-        my $delta = ms(time() - $start_time);
-        print("$delta ms\n");
-        my $results = shift;
-        push( $results, [ $name, $delta, 'ms' ] );
-    }
-}
-
 sub benchmark {
     my $dir = shift;
     our $linuxgz;
@@ -205,7 +159,7 @@ sub main {
         exit(2);
     }
 
-    dl();
+    dl_linuxgz();
     my $workingDir;
     my $mountpoint;
     my $prefix;
diff --git a/tests/common.pl b/tests/common.pl
index 3a14e36..f3bf059 100755
--- a/tests/common.pl
+++ b/tests/common.pl
@@ -106,5 +106,53 @@ sub writeZeroes
         }
 }
 
+# Returns integer $milliseconds from float $seconds
+sub ms {
+    my $seconds      = shift;
+    my $milliseconds = int( $seconds * 1000 );
+    return $milliseconds;
+}
+
+# stopwatch_start($name)
+# start the stopwatch for test "$name"
+sub stopwatch_start {
+    stopwatch(1, shift);
+}
+
+# stopwatch_stop(\@results)
+# stop the stopwatch, save time into @results
+sub stopwatch_stop {
+    stopwatch(0, shift);
+}
+
+# See stopwatch_{start,stop} above
+use feature 'state';
+use Time::HiRes qw( time );
+sub stopwatch {
+    state $start_time;
+    state $name;
+    my $start = shift;
+
+    if($start) {
+        $name = shift;
+        print("* $name... ");
+        $start_time = time();
+    } else {
+        my $delta = ms(time() - $start_time);
+        print("$delta ms\n");
+        my $results = shift;
+        push( $results, [ $name, $delta, 'ms' ] );
+    }
+}
+
+# Download linux-3.0.tar.gz unless it already exists ("-c" flag)
+sub dl_linuxgz {
+    our $linuxgz = "/var/tmp/linux-3.0.tar.gz";
+    if ( -e $linuxgz ) { return; }
+    print "downloading linux-3.0.tar.gz (92MiB)... ";
+    system("wget -nv -c https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.0.tar.gz -O $linuxgz");
+    print "done\n";
+}
+
 # As this file will be require()'d, it needs to return true
 return 1;