From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 22 2:51:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA1114C1E for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 02:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA84596; Sat, 22 May 1999 11:50:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Bruce Evans Cc: patrick@mindstep.com, 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 References: <199905220702.RAA05553@godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 May 1999 11:50:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 17:02:17 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Evans writes: > > 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 Doh. Where is my head? Oh, I left it at the bar last night... 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