Re: Shred mount option for ext4?

On Oct 31, 2006 15:14 -0500, Nikolai Joukov wrote: 1. One of the patches performs N overwrites with configurable patterns (can comply with NIST and NISPOM standards). Because of the transaction compaction we had to separately add overwriting as separate transactions. Fortunately, the whole

Re: Shred mount option for ext4?

Andreas Dilger wrote: On Oct 31, 2006 15:14 -0500, Nikolai Joukov wrote: 1. One of the patches performs N overwrites with configurable patterns (can comply with NIST and NISPOM standards). Because of the transaction compaction we had to separately add overwriting as separate

Re: Shred mount option for ext4?

1. One of the patches performs N overwrites with configurable patterns (can comply with NIST and NISPOM standards). Because of the transaction compaction we had to separately add overwriting as separate transactions. Fortunately, the whole procedure is still atomic due to the orphan list.