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stegfs 2015.08

By The stegfs Development Team on 2015-08-13

Okay, so here we are, back again (finally) with a completely new stegfs! And when we say new, we mean totally rewritten! It's much better at not overwriting your existing files (although it can and will still happen) and it's a lot more customisable.

Warning! stegfs 2015.08 is not backwards compatible!

However, onto the good stuff:

More bytes for data, less for metadata
Choose your crypto at mkfs time (now using [libcrypt])
File systems are no longer architecture dependant (score one for
network byte order!)
There's no longer any need to prefix directories with +
And hopefully the code generally all round better than before (having
been rewritten with a few more years experience, et cetera)

Lo, there too are a number of sad points:

stegfs is not (yet) multi-threaded—if you have a large
read/write, it will block—this is something we're looking at
working on soon
As was mentioned above: it's not backwards compatible, but hopefully
it will be as we move forward

I think that's pretty much everything for now; sorry it's been so long, but (as far as file systems go I feel) too many releases are likely to negatively affect stability, hence the delay.

Stay safe,
Ashley