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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
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Subject: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:20:07 +0100
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Hi Kent,

> What happened to this feature?  Was it too slow or buggy?  Did the
> Federales force its removal?
dunno, but:

man 1 chattr:

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
       As  of  Linux  2.2,  the  `c',  's',  and `u' attribute are not honored
       by the kernel filesystem code. These attributes will be implemented in
       a future ext2 fs version.

Curious to see when the future is ;)

ciao, Marc
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