Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:02:17 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, patrick@mindstep.com Cc: darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, gsutter@pobox.com, ilmar@ints.ru, imp@harmony.village.org, posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: secure deletion Message-ID: <199905220702.RAA05553@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I agree with that last statement. An implementation on FreeBSD probably does >> not need to write multiple times to the disk. > >Wouldn't work, anyway, unless you disable write caching (not just on >the disk, but in the disk driver as well - no soft updates!). >Otherwise, all passes but the last will be ignored, unless you wipe a >really big file (too big to fit in cache). man fsync Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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