Feature request: export files directly to disk (without FUSE mount)
resolritter opened this issue · 2 comments
Description
A new feature which allows users to export files from a gocryptfs volume directly to disk. The end goal is to make it possible to access the files without FUSE mounting the volume. The feature could work as follows:
gocryptfs -export /volume /destination
After running the command and inputting the password, /destination would contain a copy of all the files decrypted from /volume, i.e. an export of all the files within /volume. As a future improvement, the -exclude flag (from -reverse) could also be implemented to limit which paths get exported.
Why
It is useful for situations where FUSE mounting capabilities are not available, such as in non-rooted Android devices.
This can export single files: https://github.com/slackner/gocryptfs-inspect
Hi @rfjakob, thank you for making me aware of that project. Still, while useful, exporting single files is not good enough for the use cases I had in mind.
On another note, prior to creating this thread I found some old comments at #175 (comment) and #175 (comment)
You mean instead of
User request -> FUSE -> go-fuse -> gocryptfs -> ext4
you want
User request -> [some go code] -> gocryptfs -> ext4
?
Could work, actually. The package is not exported right now, but you can call into https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/blob/master/internal/fusefrontend/fs.go
I've made a note of these comments in case I try to implement this ticket in the future. If you have anything else to add, please do.