Re: ecryptfs is unmaintained and untested

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 09:50:37PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2024, at 15:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > This comment has been there since June 2021, so I think we can just
> > delete ecryptfs now?
> 
> I have no opinion on removing ecryptfs, but I don't how possibly
> removing it is related to the patch I sent, as far as I can tell
> it just means it relies on both CONFIG_BLOCK and CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD
> then.
> 
> Is there any indication that the last users that had files on
> ecryptfs are unable to update their kernels?

Debian is still shipping ecryptfs-utils and is building and including
the ecryptfs kernel module in their distro kernel.`

So it seems likely that there are probably a non-zero (although
probably relatively small) number of ecryptfs users out there.

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