Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch

Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07T00:20:22Z

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