From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Karl Magdsick <kmagnum@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:09:26 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4160CCF6.4000707@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd8ecdef041003104730e75776@mail.gmail.com>
Karl Magdsick wrote:
> As a note to anyone planning on uploading QEMU disk images to Free OS
> Zoo, Free OS Zoo's suggested way of creating disk images does not (in
> the general case) blank out the unused space in the disk image. As a
> result, the image will likely contain parts of deleted files from the
> host OS. This will reduce compressability of the disk images and may
> cause the disk images to contian sensitive information, such as
> passwords and credit card numbers.
>
> This isn't a problem unless you think you might possibly give the disk
> image to someone else in the future.
>
I think perhaps you should go back and do some reading on sparse files, what they are and how they
work before jumping to such conclusions.
Brad
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-02 13:16 [Qemu-devel] remark about http://www.freeoszoo.org albi
2004-10-03 17:47 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-10-03 19:21 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-04 6:50 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-10-04 11:29 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-04 11:43 ` Paul Brook
2004-10-04 4:09 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
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