From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?
Date: 21 Nov 2002 19:20:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037906458.7660.74.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021121133922.M16336@borg.org>
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 18:39, Kent Borg wrote:
> disk as the original data resided. It seems this has to happen down
> in the file system if there is any hope of it working. And even there
> it could use come help from the disk drive to make sure things can be
> made to happen where they appear to happen.
Very real issue. Your IDE and SCSI disks may randomly leave recoverable
data around if they hit a block that is iffy and mark it bad before it
fails. Flash file systems are very very likely to leave old data around
but fortunately are much smaller and therefore easy to encrypt or blank
wholesale (or indeed blowtorch erase 8))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 17:52 Kent Borg
2002-11-21 18:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 18:39 ` Kent Borg
2002-11-21 19:20 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-11-21 19:05 ` Kent Borg
2002-11-21 19:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 20:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 18:20 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-21 22:43 ` Harald Arnesen
2002-11-22 1:22 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 1:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22 2:41 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 4:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22 5:55 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 7:12 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-11-22 13:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-22 13:27 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-11-22 2:06 ` Mike Dresser
2002-11-22 14:13 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-11-22 21:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-11-24 6:40 Albert D. Cahalan
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