Re: security and journaling

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:53:36AM -0700, Chris Croswhite wrote:

> I am not quite clear on this issue and ask for comments.  I have a
> laptop going out with an employee that will use mcrypt to crypt some
> files on the hard drive.  As this computer has XFS, how can I be
> sure that the original files will not be recovered from the journal?

Unless I'm mistaken (very possible), only metadata is jornalled and
not the data, so the file contents should never be in the journal.

That said, if you are *really* paranoid deleting and over-writing the
data doesn't suffice unless done carefully and eve nthen there are
caveats.


  --cw