Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Nov 2005 01:03:17 +0100 | From | Jan Kasprzak <> | Subject | Re: XFS information leak during crash |
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Nathan Scott wrote: : XFS behaves as most filesystems do and : will write over the top of existing data.
OK, thanks for the clarification.
: XFS also rewrites files in-place. You will never get someone else's : current data (that would be metadata corruption...),
Of course.
: it would only : ever be uninitialised, previously-free space.
Yes, but an old data from previously deleted files (sendmail's temporary files, vim save files, etc) may contain a sensitive information.
-Y.
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