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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:02:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Prezeroing V2 [3/4]: Add support for ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED free maps
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Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

* Bodo Eggert:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
>> o Add scrub daemon
>
> Please use names a simple user may understand.
>
> What about memcleand or zeropaged instead?

But overwritting with zeros is commonly called "scrubbing", as in
"password scrubbing".