Package: encfs Version: 1.9.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #536401 The issue appears to be that encfs is logging errors when getattr is called on a nonexistent file, instead of simply returning an error code. My /var/log/syslog is littered with messages of the form
Jan 7 18:26:08 snowball encfs: 2017-01-07 18:26:08,462 DEBUG [default] [user@unknown-host] [int encfs::withFileNode(const char*, const char*, fuse_file_info*, std::function<int(encfs::FileNode*)>)] [/build/encfs-VGUC5_/encfs-1.9.1/encfs/encfs.cpp:145] op: getattr error: No such file or directory Reverting to 1.7.4-5 (the most recent version in my package cache, other than the current version) makes it go away. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages encfs depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii fuse 2.9.7-1 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libfuse2 2.9.7-1 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.1-5 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0c-2 ii libstdc++6 6.2.1-5 ii libtinyxml2-4 4.0.1-1 ii mount 2.29-1 encfs recommends no packages. encfs suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed