secure deletion

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar at ints.ru> writes:
> On 21 May 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > My thoughts are about an option in kernel config file (WIPEINFO?)
> > A mount option would be better.
> Why mount option? Secure deletion is a feature of fs and impacts files of
> this on this fs. All of them. So why use mount option?

Because a mount option can be changed at runtime, whereas a kernel
option cannot. A mount option would allow you to enable the security
feature on file systems which need it but not on file systems which do
not need it, whereas a kernel option would enable it unconditionally
on all file systems.

DES
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