>>>>> "Lukáš" == Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Scrubbing is something people already understand and it's clear that >> it's a data manipulation operation and not some magic "secure" >> operation. And by calling it "scrub" we get away from the idea that >> it only works on specific hardware - hardware acceleration is good, >> but there's no reason why we should design the functionality to only >> be useful on systems with hardware scrubbing capability... Lukáš> +1 for the "scrub" operation, it makes perfect sense to me. I'm not sure I agree with the choice of "scrub" to describe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scrubbing What about purge or sanitize? That's what the security folks generally use... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
