From 5a240f916d4b71e0f8f9d96a8eacc5fd8c742f48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: benrubson Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:25:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document cloud usage in man page --- README.md | 3 ++- encfs/encfs.pod | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6bfe66f..c397d09 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ How about a nice email instead? ### What settings should I use for Dropbox? -Use **standard mode**. There have been [reports](https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/388) +Use **standard mode**. There [have](https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/141) +been [reports](https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/388) of a pathological interaction of paranoia mode with Dropbox' rename detection. The problem seems to be with `External IV chaining`, which is not active in standard mode. diff --git a/encfs/encfs.pod b/encfs/encfs.pod index c216169..2a38020 100644 --- a/encfs/encfs.pod +++ b/encfs/encfs.pod @@ -525,6 +525,11 @@ be allowed when the user has write access to the file. Because of these limits, this option is disabled by default for standard mode (and enabled by default for paranoia mode). +This option may be incompatible with some cloud providers, as during a rename, +file's content changes, but not its timestamp. Due to this, file's changes may +no be correctly seen by cloud providers' sync programs. It is then not +recommended for cloud usage. + =item I B. If this is enabled, every block in every file is stored along