From b696f87ace39901b90de2732a6b14680032e9c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakob Unterwurzacher Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:10:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Mention EncFS unique features --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9a2f742..2a29d02 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -31,6 +31,20 @@ depends upon community interest. In order to make it easier for anyone to contribute, it is moving a new home on Github. So if you're interested in EncFS, please dive in! +EncFS still has a few unique features that may be interesing to you: + +* `--reverse` mode: Provides an encrypted view of an unencrypted folder. + This enables encrypted remote backups using standard tools like + rsync. +* EncFS is typically faster than ecryptfs for stat()-heavy workloads + when the backing device is a classical hard disk. + This is because ecryptfs has to to read each file header to determine + the file size - EncFS does not. This is one additional seek for each + stat. On SSDs that have virtually no seek time, that difference may + disappear. +* EncFS works on network file systems (NFS, CIFS...), while ecryptfs + is known to still have [problems][1]. + ## GitHub Transition GitHub hosting for EncFS is a work in progress. See also the original, and @@ -46,3 +60,5 @@ work, some of which may be back-ported to the master branch when it is stable. T dev branch is not stable, and there is no guarantee of backward compatibility between changes. + +[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/277578