secure deletion

[Ilmar S. Habibulin]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, James Wyatt 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?
> 
> I took him to mean that you could have a mount optionto disallow it on a
> particular filesystem. (like nosuid, etc..) - Jy@
Ok, i undestand. And about kernel config option to enable wipe feature - 
we can make this feature be controlable through sysctl interface.
Disadvantage - some permanent code (maybe unused at all).


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