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Date:      Sat, 22 May 1999 16:18:26 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru>
Cc:        posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure deletion 
Message-ID:  <4015.927382706@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 16:01:45 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905191535110.7728-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905191535110.7728-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru>, "Ilmar S
. Habibulin" writes:
>
>May be it's an freebsd-fs@ question, but i think that it belings here to.
>I heard that some linux fs (maybe extfs2?) have some secure deletion flag,
>which being set on inode(file or dir) cause content of this file to be
>wiped before deletion, so even if somebody manage to restore file, its
>content would be unusable. I think, that it is nice feature, and i would
>like to see it in freebsd. What would you say?

If somebody decides to implement this in the kernel, please take a
look at the VOP_FREEBLKS() interface which is where/how it should be
done, if at all.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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