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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Actually, I have encountered file systems where two successive
> write() calls from userspace to the same offset in the file wouldn't
> end up in the same physical location on the disk (AIX's JFS with compression).

See also:

    - ext3 with data journalling

    - reiser4 with wandering logs

    - experimental ext? patches for tail-packing small files

-- Jamie