Hi All,

My first topic here, I own a Banana Pi M1 and I have just switched from bananian.

Everything looks great in armbian and most of the things are just working, I just miss zsh from bananian but that was easy to fix.

 

However I use my server for backups using ecryptfs (so I can encrypt/decrypt folders on demand) and I'm unable to mount any ecryptfs directory.

 

My configuration: Banana PI M1 running Debian Wheezy mainline kernel 4.4.3 (just installed)

 

Things I've done:

Install ecryptfs-utils (installs ok and tools are available)

Try to mount a ecryptfs directory: I get the message "unknown filesystem type ecryptfs"

Try to load as a module (just in case): modprobe ecryptfs = FATAL, module ecryptfs not found

cat /boot/config-4.4.3-sunxi I can't find anything related to ecryptfs

Also had a look at /proc/filesystems and ecryptfs is not there (should be automatically supported by kernel)

 

lsmod reports sun4i_ss and fuse loaded (I thought it could be a problem related to sun4i_ss -security system cryptographic accelerator- I've read in the forums that ss is buggy)

 

Any ideas? Anybody using ecryptfs?

Ecryptfs was disabled in kernel config - it will be available in new kernel release.

 

Also I would recommend blacklisting sun4i_ss to prevent data corruption until issue is resolved.

Thank you!

I was driving crazy looking for that.

Totally agree with blacklisting SS, specially when the maintainer is still looking for the cause behind data corruption

Just quick comment here: I am with latest armbian (5.23) and sun4i_ss seems to work correctly (seems, I need futher testing). So problems with encryption (ecryptfs, ssh, etc) should be gone