Zeroing data blocks

[Dave Boutcher]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:19:13 -0700, "Avinash Ramanath" <avinashr@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

Dave B
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