Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:43:29 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: niek@bergboer.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Subject: Re: UFS block size vs. write speed Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010424103925.00a81ae0@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010424113536.A61988@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104231207360.1931-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010423134554.A57241@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104231207360.1931-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Hi, At 11:35 24/04/01 +0200, Niek Bergboer wrote: >[...] >In fact, I couldn't care less if the allocated blocks contain random >data (rather than zeros), since I'll be overwriting them immediately. You *should* care: the blocks are zeroed for security reasons. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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