Comment 8 for bug 390833
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| Mikko Rantalainen (mira) wrote Re: du reports newly created files on ecryptfs as empty | #8 |
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One could argue that the current "du" output is correct because the ecryptfs really requires zero bytes for storing the files (because it's using the underlying file system for actual storage).
However, that prevents users from from using "du" or any similar tool for figuring out which files and/or directories take the most disk space. Because the encrypted files are much bigger than apparent size especially for small apparent file sizes it would make sense to allow normal user space programs to compute the real disk space used.
Perhaps one should figure out how "du" is computing its total count for real disk space taken and then implement required features for ecryptfs to correctly result in real disk space used in the underlying file system.