From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 1 02:08:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29024 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 02:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29001 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 02:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18181; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:11:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:11:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Joe McGuckin cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signed executables, safe delete etc. In-Reply-To: <199805312148.OAA25397@monk.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... And one more thing: as far as I know, Novell knows the notion of "purge on delete" flag, and it's extremely useful in situation when you don't want your data to stay indefinitely long in unused disk blocks... And it doesn't seem to require too many changes in FS code to implement (well, I can hear you saying: then go and do it! but FS is still black magic to me :-). Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message