Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 19:21:24 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> Actually, I have encountered file systems where two successive
> write() calls from userspace to the same offset in the file wouldn't
> end up in the same physical location on the disk (AIX's JFS with compression).

See also:

- ext3 with data journalling

- reiser4 with wandering logs

- experimental ext? patches for tail-packing small files

-- Jamie
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