Date: 21 May 1999 19:52:56 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion Message-ID: <xzpwvy2pax2.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Ilmar S. Habibulin"'s message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 21:28:34 %2B0400 (MSD)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905212123450.10543-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>
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"Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru> writes: > On 21 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > My thoughts are about an option in kernel config file (WIPEINFO?) > > A mount option would be better. > Why mount option? Secure deletion is a feature of fs and impacts files of > this on this fs. All of them. So why use mount option? Because a mount option can be changed at runtime, whereas a kernel option cannot. A mount option would allow you to enable the security feature on file systems which need it but not on file systems which do not need it, whereas a kernel option would enable it unconditionally on all file systems. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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