Enable mounting to "/Volumes" on macOS

[alexanderharm]

Right now running gocryptfs encdir /Volumes/encdir errors out. However, osxfuse automatically creates the encdir if mounted to /Volumes because this would require root permissions which the user might not have.

I guess mount.go needs to be modified to not check the directory existence when the mount path matches /Volumes/* on macOS.

I'm willing to write a PR myself but I'm a total Go newbie. Not sure that these are the only critical references in the source:

gocryptfs/mount.go

Lines 38 to 65 in a4dff6a

 args.mountpoint, err = filepath.Abs(flagSet.Arg(1)) 
 if err != nil { 
 	tlog.Fatal.Printf("Invalid mountpoint: %v", err) 
 	os.Exit(exitcodes.MountPoint) 
 } 
 // We cannot mount "/home/user/.cipher" at "/home/user" because the mount 
 // will hide ".cipher" also for us. 
 if args.cipherdir == args.mountpoint || strings.HasPrefix(args.cipherdir, args.mountpoint+"/") { 
 	tlog.Fatal.Printf("Mountpoint %q would shadow cipherdir %q, this is not supported", 
 		args.mountpoint, args.cipherdir) 
 	os.Exit(exitcodes.MountPoint) 
 } 
 // Reverse-mounting "/foo" at "/foo/mnt" means we would be recursively 
 // encrypting ourselves. 
 if strings.HasPrefix(args.mountpoint, args.cipherdir+"/") { 
 	tlog.Fatal.Printf("Mountpoint %q is contained in cipherdir %q, this is not supported", 
 		args.mountpoint, args.cipherdir) 
 	os.Exit(exitcodes.MountPoint) 
 } 
 if args.nonempty { 
 	err = checkDir(args.mountpoint) 
 } else { 
 	err = checkDirEmpty(args.mountpoint) 
 } 
 if err != nil { 
 	tlog.Fatal.Printf("Invalid mountpoint: %v", err) 
 	os.Exit(exitcodes.MountPoint) 
 } 

[rfjakob]

Sounds like a good idea. I can implement this, can you test?

[alexanderharm]

Sure. Can you also check #124? This has been fixed upstream.

[rfjakob]

Pushed to https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/commits/macos_volumes , MacOS binary attached - could you test? Binary: gocryptfs.gz

[alexanderharm]

It creates the dir in Volumes but it is not mounted in Finder. I will read some more tonight and come back.

[alexanderharm]

@rfjakob I tested a bit more and it works perfectly fine. However I noticed two things:

• osxfuse always creates the dir even if several levels don't exist. So on macOS one could completely omit the dirstat (e. g. gocryptfs cipher ~/this/path/does/not/exist works).

• passing fuse options via -o doesn't work (e. g. -o local)

[alexanderharm]

It might also make sense to pass the following mount options on macOS to avoid the creation of these additional files:

• noapplexattr
• noappledouble

[rfjakob]

Do you get an error when passing options via -o ?

[rfjakob]

Oh, you have to use -ko !

[alexanderharm]

gocryptfs test /Volumes/Test -o local
Wrong number of arguments (have 3, want 2). You passed: "test" "/Volumes/Test" "-olocal"
Usage: gocryptfs [OPTIONS] CIPHERDIR MOUNTPOINT [-o COMMA-SEPARATED-OPTIONS]

Same result with -ko.

[rfjakob]

$ gocryptfs -ko local a b
Password: 
[...]

[alexanderharm]

Great! But I find this a bit misleading or incomplete for beginners like me:

  -ko string
    	Pass additional options directly to the kernel, comma-separated list

[rfjakob]

I agree, it's not explained very clearly. How about this: 277ad08 ?

With bac7ef4 , gocryptfs continues if the mountpoint does not exist, for all paths. I'll declare this DONE :)

[alexanderharm]

Great. Thank you very much for your efforts.