Re: Zeroing data blocks

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On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 18:56 -0700, Avinash Ramanath wrote:
> I am trying to zero data blocks whenever an unlink is invoked as part
> of a secure delete filesystem.
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Hi,

just a question... how secure do you want to be?
(just asking because zeros might not be the best pattern when protecting
against government type use :)

> I tried to zero the file by writing a buffer (of file size) with
> zeroes onto the file.

that's not so nice since there is no guarantee that the filesystem or
the disk won't remap the data blocks underneath you...



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