Date: 22 May 1999 11:50:00 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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 Message-ID: <xzpvhdlph6f.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 17:02:17 %2B1000" References: <199905220702.RAA05553@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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
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