From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Gauthier <elleron@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: secure erasure of files?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:03:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C69AD53.40F82438@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202121409150.18597-100000@mustard.heime.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202121438560.7616-100000@unicef.org.yu> <20020212165504.A5915@devcon.net>, <20020212165504.A5915@devcon.net>; from aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:55:04PM +0100 <20020212204710.A7416@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3C697A1D.4599DDE@zip.com.au>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know if any filesystem currently relocates blocks if you
> > > overwrite a file, but it's certainly possible and allowed (everything
> > > else except the filesystem itself simply must not care where the data
> > > actually ends up on the disk).
> >
> > AFAIK, ext2 tries to defragment files when possible.
>
> We wish.
ext2meta will defragment yer files for ya, though. Coming soon to a
kernel near you :)
My home directory disk, a raid-1 mirror, just crossed 15 percent
fragmentation last week, I noticed... The filesystem is maybe 1.5-2
years old.
Jeff
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-12 13:12 secure erasure of files? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-12 13:41 ` Davidovac Zoran
2002-02-12 14:03 ` Padraig Brady
2002-02-12 15:55 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-02-12 19:47 ` Jan Hudec
2002-02-12 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-13 0:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-02-13 9:33 ` Helge Hafting
2002-02-13 18:27 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-13 0:36 ` Tom Vier
2002-02-13 0:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-20 15:34 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <200202121326.g1CDQct12086@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2002-02-12 13:33 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-17 21:19 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2002-02-19 12:54 ` Jens Schmidt
2002-02-19 14:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-21 2:56 ` Petro
2002-02-21 3:20 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-02-21 17:01 ` Holger Lubitz
2002-02-26 3:39 ` Petro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-12 21:14 Torrey Hoffman
2002-02-19 14:48 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 17:32 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 17:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-19 18:48 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 20:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-19 23:13 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 16:19 Jesse Pollard
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