From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266215AbUBDBBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:01:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266220AbUBDBBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:01:19 -0500 Received: from www.trustcorps.com ([213.165.226.2]:50193 "EHLO raq1.nitrex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266215AbUBDBBQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:01:16 -0500 Message-ID: <402043C9.8000703@hcunix.net> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:58:49 +0000 From: the grugq User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch References: <4017E3B9.3090605@hcunix.net> <20040203222030.GB465@elf.ucw.cz> <40203DE1.3000302@hcunix.net> <20040204004318.GA253@elf.ucw.cz> <4020416B.3050301@hcunix.net> <20040204005514.GB253@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040204005514.GB253@elf.ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey, > > [Perhaps I got confused somewhere in between] nope, just me. > > I think chattr +s file should be zeroed, along with its metadata. I > thought your patch already does that. If not, doing that would be > great... it does already zero the meta-data. I was simply asking if you think the whole "erase" operation should be under the control of chattr 's', or just a subset (i.e. only data overwriting is optional). Its clear now that you want the whole thing to be controled by chattr 's'. I'll knock that up then, and re-submit. peace, --gq