Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:17:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:17:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:32782 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:17:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3DDD24E7.4040603@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:24:39 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Borg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute? References: <20021121125240.K16336@borg.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121125240.K16336@borg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 22 Kent Borg wrote: > What happened to this feature? Was it too slow or buggy? Did the > Federales force its removal? > > (Would this be best implemented as a background scrub and I am missing > a daemon?) man shred(1) Much better than anything implemented in-kernel Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/