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Re: secure delete

To: Linux XFS <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: secure delete
From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:04:05 +0000
In-reply-to: <15426.31621.557586.351483@jpc.local> (Jason White's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:32:37 +1100")
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begin  Jason White quotation:

> The main problem is how to ensure that the data are actually written
> to disk the specified number of times.

O_DIRECT, perhaps?  If you do lot of deletes it'll probably bog down
your disk subsystem majorly, though.

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