Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:07:29 +0100 (CET) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070220140510.Q5453@chrishome.localnet> In-Reply-To: <45D9FD35.6040702@vwsoft.com> References: <45D9FD35.6040702@vwsoft.com>
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Volker wrote: > For my dentist I'm currently in the process of destroying some tape > cartridges (SLR7) and also two hard disks (147G SCSI). > > The tape sits there since 48 hours writing a block of data every > other minute and still didn't fill up the tape completely. The > system this is running on is a P-4 3GHz machine using FreeSBIE 2.0 > (6.2-RELEASE based). > > I suspect this to be a slow /dev/random. > > As there is medical data on all media I really need garbage > (/dev/zero wouldn't be enough for data security as this might get > recovered). > As a quick (slow?) fix, couldn't you just fill the disks with random data and then dump that data to your tapes? /Chris -- www.infotropic.com
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