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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Designing Another File System
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:46:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101836768.25629.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411301828.iAUISgf8031548@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 18:28, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:32:05 EST, John Richard Moser said:
> they punt on the issue of over-writing a sector that's been re-allocated by
> the hardware (apparently the chances of critical secret data being left in
> a reallocated block but still actually readable are "low enough" not to worry).

I guess they never consider CF cards which internally are log structured
and for whom such erase operations are very close to pointless.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-30 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-30  4:32 Designing Another File System John Richard Moser
2004-11-30  7:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-11-30 13:07 ` Helge Hafting
2004-12-01  1:16   ` John Richard Moser
2004-11-30 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-30 18:28 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-30 17:46   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-11-30 19:00     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 19:14     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-30 20:22       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-12-02 23:32     ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01  1:35   ` John Richard Moser
2004-11-30 19:22 ` Phil Lougher
2004-12-01  1:42   ` John Richard Moser
2004-12-01  2:46     ` Phil Lougher
2004-12-01  4:32       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-01  7:51         ` Phil Lougher
2004-12-01  5:11       ` John Richard Moser
2004-12-02 20:18   ` Jan Knutar
2004-12-07  2:01     ` Phil Lougher
2004-12-07  2:31       ` John Richard Moser

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