Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:55:25 -0500 | Subject | Zeroing data blocks | From | (Dave Boutcher) |
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:19:13 -0700, "Avinash Ramanath" <avinashr@gmail.com> said: > > I am trying to zero data blocks whenever an unlink is invoked as part > of a secure delete filesystem. > I tried to zero the file by writing a buffer (of file size) with > zeroes onto the file.
Hmm...you may want to look at https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2006-April/msg00004.html for a slightly cleaner approach. I just used that patch on a 2.6.17 and it worked fine.
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