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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 01:03:17 +0100
From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS information leak during crash
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Nathan Scott wrote:
: XFS behaves as most filesystems do and
: will write over the top of existing data.

	OK, thanks for the clarification.

: XFS also rewrites files in-place.  You will never get someone else's
: current data (that would be metadata corruption...),

	Of course.

: it would only
: ever be uninitialised, previously-free space.

	Yes, but an old data from previously deleted files
(sendmail's temporary files, vim save files, etc) may contain
a sensitive information.

-Y.

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