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From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
To: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
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Subject: Re: secure deletion
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On Fri, 21 May 1999, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote:
> 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?

I took him to mean that you could have a mount optionto disallow it on a
particular filesystem. (like nosuid, etc..) - Jy@



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