Re: Secure deletion

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:28:23 -0300

In message <35B7335F.D84309B@quiotix.com>, "Jeffrey B. Siegal" writes:
+-----
| Chris Wedgwood wrote:
| > OK, fair enough. At one point, you could set and e2fs attribute and when th
| e
| > file was deleted, the blocks previously occupied were zeroed.
| This isn't exactly what I want. I want to set the attribute on a filesystemw
+--->8

Actually, it is: you can (at least in theory; it's up to the user-space
mount command to support it) set *any* per-file attribute at mount time and it
will apply to all files (including newly created ones). Have a look at
fs/ext2/super.c.

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