Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch

[the grugq]

Well, I think secure deletion should be an option for everyone. Using 
encryption is a data hiding technique, you prevent people for detemining 
what sort of data is being stored there. Now, admittedly I dont know at 
what level the reiser4 encryption appears, but I would think its safer 
to have complete erasure when a file deleted regardless of how well 
protected its contents were.

just a thought.

--gq

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Actually, I have encountered file systems where two successive
> > > write() calls from userspace to the same offset in the file wouldn't
> > > end up in the same physical location on the disk (AIX's JFS with 
> > > compression).
> > >   
> >
> >
> > See also:
> >
> >    - ext3 with data journalling
> >
> >    - reiser4 with wandering logs
> >
> >    - experimental ext? patches for tail-packing small files
> >
> > -- Jamie
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> reiser4 probably does not need secure deletion as much as others, 
> because once the encryption plugins are debugged we will most likely 
> encourage users to use encryption by default.  Perhaps someone will show 
> the error in my thinking though, I am not trying to be rigid here....
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