From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:50:42 +1100 Message-ID: <20061204235042.GS33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Nikolai Joukov Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:33:55PM -0500, Nikolai Joukov wrote: > As we promised on the linux-ext4 list on October 31, here is the patch > that adds secure deletion via a trash-bin functionality for ext4. It is a > compromise solution that combines secure deletion with the trash-bin support > (the latter had been requested by even more people than the former :-). Given that almost all of the code for this uses vfs interfaces and only a couple of simple filesystem hooks, is there any reason for this being ext4 specific? i.e. why aren't you hooking the vfs layer so we get a single undelete/secure delete implementation for all filesystems? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group