Re: XFS information leak during crash

[Nathan Scott]

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.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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