secure deletion

[Warner Losh]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200957550.18001-100000 at ws-ilmar.ints.ru>
"Ilmar S. Habibulin" writes:
: Bzero can be changed to some other function, is suppose that this is not a
: question. The question is if this thing is needed by comunity.

There is a certain segment of the community that would use it.  If
there was zero overhead (beyond a bit compare on unlink) when not
used, binary compatible with current disks and a fairly clean
implementation, then I think that there would be support for its
inclusion.

Warner

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