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From: Erkki Seppala <flux-btrfs@inside.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ideas for a feature implementation
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:38:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m49mwb9ek95.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53E83035.8010603@gmail.com

Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> writes:

> Another thing that isn't listed there, that I would personally love to
> see is support for secure file deletion.

As discussed in the followups, it is difficult to do a really secure
deletion and a security-conscious person would opt to use encryption
instead. Ability to encrypt subvolumes or files would probably serve
those needs sufficiently, though it sounds like it could easily be a
longer task than 4 months.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-10 19:21 Ideas for a feature implementation Vimal A R
2014-08-11  2:53 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-08-11 20:27   ` Chris Murphy
2014-08-12  2:27     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-08-12  3:04       ` Chris Murphy
2014-08-12 15:52   ` David Pottage
2014-08-12 17:34     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-08-13 12:26     ` Brendan Hide
2014-08-12 16:38   ` Erkki Seppala [this message]
2014-08-12 11:00 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2014-08-13 11:01   ` David Pottage
2014-08-13 11:05     ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2014-08-17 21:17     ` Chris Murphy

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