On Sep 07, 2006 17:40 -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: > Well, the manpage does say: Also, right when 's' is defined, see Note: When a file with the ‘s’ attribute set is deleted, its blocks are zeroed and written back to the disk. Note: please make sure to read the bugs and limitations section at the end of this document. > BUGS AND LIMITATIONS > The `c', 's', and `u' attributes are not honored by the ext2 and > ext3 filesystems as implemented in the current mainline Linux > kernels. These attributes may be implemented in future versions > ext2 and ext3. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users