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[Brad Templeton <launch-pad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  I agree that reporting zero because the bytes are accounted for
in the underlying FS is not the right answer, since this is a different
mount point, and it is understood that overlay mounts can cause the same
files or disk space to appear twice.

Any chance of having a bug fix in karmic, since you didn't get it out in
time for the release?

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du reports newly created files on ecryptfs as empty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390833
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: In Progress
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
I'm using an encrypted home directory on Ubuntu Jaunty. When I create a new file in my home directory or copy and existing file/folder, du shows its size as zero bytes:

das@serenity ~ > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.114302 s, 9.2 MB/s
das@serenity ~ > du test
0	test
das@serenity ~ > ll test
-rw-r--r-- 1 das das 1048576 2009-06-22 22:14 test

du keeps reporting a size of zero bytes until the encrypted directory is remounted. After that, the output seems to be correct.