From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Sawhill Subject: Re: Problem using ecryptfs on top of NFS Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:08:50 -0400 Message-ID: <521B99B2.1030606@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31129 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381Ab3HZSIv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:08:51 -0400 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7QI8psd009812 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:08:51 -0400 Received: from [10.10.56.230] (vpn-56-230.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.56.230]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7QI8oEY011285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:08:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: ecryptfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org On 08/04/2013 03:20 PM, Ruben Gaspar wrote: > I am trying to mount ecryptfs on top of an NFS mount, but I get following error: > > Error mounting eCryptfs: [-22] Invalid argument > Check your system logs; visit > > > Checking my /var/log/messages I found: > > Mount request on top of filesystem type [nfs] > Mount on filesystem of type [nfs] explicitly disallowed due to known > incompatibilities > Invalid lower filesystem type > I'm confused by your comments -- you copied and pasted the above error message, but you don't seem to have read it..? In any case, what it says is true. Here's a comment (from one of the main developers) on the relevant bug -- still accurate AFAIK: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/277578/comments/23