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Date:      Sat, 22 May 1999 10:44:44 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure deletion
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221042250.25097-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xzpwvy2pax2.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>

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On 21 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> 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.
And what about it? I just don't understand why this option must be
fs-specific. If file have no flag, it would be deleted in ordinary way. 



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