On Sep 08, 2006 16:10 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Ideally, this wouldn't be done as a mount-time option, but rather only > if the secure_delete flag is set on the file. That way you don't do > it for all files, but just those that need to be zeroed. Agreed. > The patch also has the potential danger that the data blocks are > getting zeroed before the transaction which contains the unlink has > committed. There is therefore the risk that the system might crash > after the blocks have been zero'ed, but before transaction has > committed. In that case, the file will still be there, but some or > all of its contents will be zero'ed. That might be considered a feature. 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
