Comment 6 for bug 587408

I compared EncFS with EcryptFS.

I created 10.000 files:
for((X=0;X<10000;X+=1)); do dd if=/dev/zero of=file$X.log bs=1 count=1; done

Than I measured directory listing time:

EcryptFS:
maco@maco-desktop:~/Private$ time ls -lR > /dev/null
real 1m4.619s
user 0m0.210s
sys 0m1.460s

EncFS:
maco@maco-desktop:~/visible$ time ls -lR > /dev/null
real 0m0.921s
user 0m0.080s
sys 0m0.280s

no encryption:
maco@maco-desktop:~/.encrypted$ time ls -lR > /dev/null
real 0m0.670s
user 0m0.160s
sys 0m0.250s

Result is, that EncFS do not have this bug, so it can be easy solution for those who are using EcryptFS and have big troubles with this bug - simply move files from EcryptFS directory to EncFS directory.

EncFS:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FolderEncryption