<listitem><para>DAX (Direct Access) is not supported on encrypted
files.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem><para condition='l2F'>The st_size of an encrypted
+ symlink will not necessarily give the length of the symlink
+ target as required by POSIX. It will actually give the length of
+ the ciphertext, which will be slightly longer than the plaintext
+ due to NUL-padding and an extra 2-byte overhead.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para condition='l2F'>The maximum length of an encrypted
+ symlink is 2 bytes shorter than the maximum length of an
+ unencrypted symlink.</para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>mmap</literal> is supported. This is
possible because the pagecache for an encrypted file contains
the plaintext, not the ciphertext.</para>
<literal>stat()</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Directories may be listed, and the whole namespace tree
- may be walked through.
- </para>
+ <para condition='l2F'>Directories may be listed, in which case
+ the filenames will be listed in an encoded form derived from
+ their ciphertext. The algorithm is subject to change but it is
+ guaranteed that the presented filenames will be no longer than
+ NAME_MAX bytes, will not contain the <literal>/</literal> or
+ <literal>\0</literal> characters, and will uniquely identify
+ directory entries. The <literal>.</literal> and
+ <literal>..</literal> directory entries are special. They are
+ always present and are not encrypted or encoded.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Files may be deleted. That is, nondirectory files may be
content encryption mode will be taken into account, and filename
encryption mode will be ignored to leave filenames in clear text.</para>
</warning>
+ <warning><para condition='l2F'>In Lustre 2.15, filename encryption mode
+ will be taken into account for new files and directories, if they are
+ under a parent encrypted directory created with Lustre 2.15. This means
+ new files and directories under a parent encrypted directory created with
+ Lustre 2.14 will not have their names encrypted.
+ Also, because files created with Lustre 2.14 did not have their names
+ encrypted, they will remain so after upgrade to 2.15.</para>
+ </warning>
</section>
<section xml:id="managingSecurity.clientencryption.threatmodel" remap="h3">
<title><indexterm><primary>encryption threat model</primary>