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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> Forget the shred program. It's less useful than having the
> filesystem simply zero the blocks, because it's slow and you
> can't be sure to hit the OS-visible blocks.


Why not?

Please name a filesystem that moves allocated blocks around on you.  And 
point to code, too.

	Jeff



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