From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Nikolai Joukov <kolya@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:50:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061204235042.GS33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0612041256180.15321@compserv1>
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:33:55PM -0500, Nikolai Joukov wrote:
> As we promised on the linux-ext4 list on October 31, here is the patch
> that adds secure deletion via a trash-bin functionality for ext4. It is a
> compromise solution that combines secure deletion with the trash-bin support
> (the latter had been requested by even more people than the former :-).
Given that almost all of the code for this uses vfs interfaces and
only a couple of simple filesystem hooks, is there any reason for
this being ext4 specific? i.e. why aren't you hooking the vfs layer
so we get a single undelete/secure delete implementation for all
filesystems?
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-04 18:33 [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4 Nikolai Joukov
2006-12-04 23:50 ` David Chinner [this message]
2006-12-05 16:41 ` Nikolai Joukov
2006-12-06 9:11 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 22:16 ` Nathan Scott
2006-12-07 0:56 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07 1:44 ` David Chinner
2006-12-07 2:35 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07 2:49 ` David Chinner
2006-12-07 3:14 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-12-07 5:35 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-07 5:45 ` Nathan Scott
2006-12-09 1:44 ` Nikolai Joukov
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