Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:20:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:20:30 -0500 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:47884 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:20:29 -0500 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15838.12484.46897.60190@laputa.namesys.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:27:32 +0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 43CE 9384 5A1D CD75 5087 A876 A1AA 84D0 CCAA AC92 X-PGP-Key-ID: CCAAAC92 X-PGP-Key-At: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCCAAAC92 To: Alan Cox Cc: Jeff Garzik , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , kentborg@borg.org Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute? In-Reply-To: <1037972308.11846.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <200211220122.gAM1MQY305783@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3DDD88BB.209@pobox.com> <1037972308.11846.7.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.5 (beta6) "bok choi" XEmacs Lucid X-Flame: Reagan is a coward, huh? Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 26 Alan Cox writes: > 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 Journalling file systems also may leave copies of data in the journal area(s). > Nikita. - 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/