Alan Cox writes:
> 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
Journalling file systems also may leave copies of data in the journal area(s).
>
Nikita.
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