Re: [PATCH v3 05/22] fscrypt: document btrfs' fscrypt quirks.

Sweet Tea Dorminy
2022-10-20T22:07:27Z

On 10/20/22 17:41, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:58:24PM -0400, Sweet Tea Dorminy wrote:
>> +For most filesystems, fscrypt does not support encrypting files
>> +in-place. Instead, it supports marking an empty directory as encrypted.
>> +Then, after userspace provides the key, all regular files, directories,
>> +and symbolic links created in that directory tree are transparently
>> encrypted.
>
> As I mentioned on the previous version, I'd prefer if the support for encrypting
> nonempty directories was at the end of the patchset.
>
> - Eric

Ah, you're right, I should split the doc change about non-empty
directories into its own change. Will do.