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Joey Hess 2016-04-27 13:11:50 -04:00
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 1"""
date="2016-04-27T16:59:51Z"
content="""
git-annex does not these days treat lack of of hard link support as a crippled
filesystem. It just falls back to copying files where it would make hard
links.
encfs is coming up crippled because it ignores lack of write bits on files;
writing to a mode 444 file on an encfs filesystem by the owner of the file
is allowed.
That breaks an important safeguard that git-annex relies on;
for example this would work in a non-direct mode repository on an encfs
filesystem, even though file permissions don't allow writing to annexed
file contents:
joey@darkstar:/tmp/encfs/d> echo corrupt > bar
So, you're really better off using direct mode on encfs.
encfs has tons of other problems that make it not work well with
git-annex, and generally insecure. I heartily recommend you reconsider
using it.
"""]]