Re: [PATCH] ext4: Add support for SFITRIM, an ioctl for secure FITRIM.

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>>>>> "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...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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