Re: XFS information leak during crash

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Iau, 2005-11-03 at 11:11 +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:03:17AM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> > : it would only ever be uninitialised, previously-free space.
> > 
> >     Yes, but an old data from previously deleted files
> > (sendmail's temporary files, vim save files, etc) may contain
> > a sensitive information.
> 
> Indeed.  But this is a generic issue affecting most filesystems;
> its not specific to XFS as your original mail claimed.

Very true. You can use ext3 in data journalling mode if this is a
concern but that guarantee has a performance cost