From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60521 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753065AbaHLQi0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:38:26 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHF5c-0007dr-R5 for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:38:24 +0200 Received: from coffee.modeemi.fi ([130.230.72.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:38:24 +0200 Received: from flux-btrfs by coffee.modeemi.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:38:24 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Erkki Seppala Subject: Re: Ideas for a feature implementation Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:38:14 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1407698476.20187.YahooMailNeo@web192906.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <53E83035.8010603@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Austin S Hemmelgarn 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. -- _____________________________________________________________________ / __// /__ ____ __ http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/\ \ / /_ / // // /\ \/ / \ / /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi \/