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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net
Cc: jlnance@intrex.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 -  (NUMA))
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:27:36 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210081327.g98DRatM000391@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e3723041308a2DTVMAIL7@smtp.cwctv.net> from "Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net" at Oct 08, 2002 02:06:02 PM

> >     Do you think it would be better to make the defragmentation part of
> > the normal operation of the FS rather than a seperate application.  For
> > example, if you did a fragmentation check/fix on the last close of a file
> > you would know that coherency issues were not going to be important.  It
> > might also give you some way to determine which files were important to
> > keep close together.

> sounds good, could a space wiper be made for secret
> agencies/buisness throwing away old hdds?

They can just do:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

John.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 13:13 UTC|newest]

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2002-10-08 13:06 Hell.Surfers
2002-10-08 13:27 ` jbradford [this message]

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