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@ -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