Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 08:38:28 EST


On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 01:30, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> > Forget the shred program. It's less useful than having the
> > filesystem simply zero the blocks, because it's slow and you
> > can't be sure to hit the OS-visible blocks.
>
>
> Why not?
>
> Please name a filesystem that moves allocated blocks around on you. And
> point to code, too.

Anything on IDE or SCSI or Flash. Just its done below you

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