Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 02:36:59 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> 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: <199905220836.CAA02030@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 10:44:44 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221042250.25097-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221042250.25097-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905221042250.25097-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> "Ilmar S. Habibulin" writes: : 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. I think that what people are saying, if I understand them correctly, is that it would be desirable if an entire file system could be told to do the shredding delete. This would make it useful for a filesystem mounted on /tmp, for example. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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