Stable enough?

[acanrpk]

Tagging @predragmandic
Sorry for creating an issue, but I was wondering if FUSECry was considered stable enough for normal use?
As far as I can tell, no other FUSE FS project provides file size obfuscation while being reasonably new.

[predragmandic]

@acanrpk I used FUSECry daily for the past 2 years and had no problems with it. It is currently not handling symlinks properly. Symlinks in mounted FS that point outside of mounted partition will cause errors and can be removed only by unmounting, then deleting the symlink in obfuscated directory and then mounting again. As a result, you won't be able to clone a git branch into encrypted partition for example, because it will try to link/unlink .git/index.lock on every commit.
I've been too busy on other projects to fix this issue and I'm using FUSECry primarily for personal files (legal documents, images, etc.), but I can invest some time in fixing this logic if you need it.
Also, there was no 3rd party pentesting performed on the project ever and I wouldn't recommend it for production use until then, although I believe security is very sound (no exotic encryption algorithms used).

[acanrpk]

No need for symlink fixing, I just wanted to know about known issues from the dev themselves (that's why I tagged you, you're listed as dev on some other site). I'll play with it a bit and see if any issues come up.
Also, if you know any other project with file size obfuscation, please do let me know.

[predragmandic]

There is this one: https://www.cryfs.org/howitworks

[acanrpk]

Yeah, that one has a long history of corrupting data upon unexpected power loss. Gonna compare the two in benchmarks and then take a decision.

[predragmandic]

Please let me know how it went and raise any issues you find here. It will mean a lot.

[acanrpk]

I probably won't have time for in depth comparison (block sizes, HDD vs SSD, layers of FUSE filesystems) before the next week, but I'll provide the results and issues here at the earliest!