[Bug 1955347] Re: rsync works bad with encfs now

[Bryce Harrington]

Hi Claude,

Were you able to downgrade to see if the prior version works properly,
as Lucas suggested?  If you haven't yet done so, I'd recommend using apt
rather than co-installation from a tarball in this case both because
it'd be a better apples-to-apples check, and because the behavior will
be more predictable (co-installation can mess up config files and such).
For example, downgrade using a command somewhat like this:

    $ apt-cache policy rsync
    rsync:
      Installed: 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.1
      Candidate: 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.1
      Version table:
     *** 3.1.3-8ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.1.3-8 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

    $ sudo apt-get install rsync=3.1.3-8
    [sudo] password for bryce: 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
      rsync
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
    Need to get 322 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 12.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Let us know when you've completed the check.

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Title:
  rsync works bad with encfs now

Status in rsync package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hello,
  I think rsync works bad with encfs now.

  When root uses it, rsync cannot read a directory encrypted with encfs
  by a user. More precisely, it cannot read the mounted directory, the
  virtual one where the user can read the datas.

  Until now there was only a warning like this
  "rsync: readlink_stat("/home/claude/Documents_chiffres") failed:
  Permission denied (13)"
  and the software went on working (only ignoring the content of the mounted directory and of course without saving this content)

  But recently there is this more:
  "IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion"
  and because of this "skipping file deletion", the software can't work normally. The destination gets bigger more and more because the deleted files in the source are not deleted in the destination.

  Thanks for reading me.
  rsync	3.1.3-8ubuntu0.1
  Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
  Release:        20.04

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