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Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 01:30, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

Anything on IDE or SCSI or Flash. Just its done below you

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