Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4

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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
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