Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2004 01:43:18 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch |
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Hi!
> >Perhaps this should still be controlled by (chattr(1)) [its already > >documented, just not yet implemented]. > > > > When a file with the `s' attribute set is deleted, its blocks > > are zeroed and written back to the disk. > > > >...at which point config option is not really neccessary. > > > > You're not the first person to mention this to me, Pádraig, brought this > up on the day I posted. I certainly thing the 's' options should be > implemented, however for a privacy patch I believe that the user > shouldn't have to intervene to ensure a file is securely erased. It > makes more sense to me, as a lazy person, that the file system should be > set to always remove the file content... that way the user doesn't need > to get involved. > > All that said, the user's content is something that the user could be > considered responsible for erasing themselves. The meta-data is the part > of the file which they dont' have access to, so having privacy > capabilities for meta-data erasure is a requirement. User data > erasure... I can take it or leave it. I think it should be automatic if > at all, but I'm not really that bothered about it.
Well, doing it on-demand means one less config option, and possibility to include it into 2.7... It should be easy to have tiny patch forcing that option always own for your use... Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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