Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
BTW., if someone still likes my trivial approach and thinks the patches might be usable because they contain just a few silly changes which might be easily rebased onto future kernel versions, I suggest to get rid of the new syscall and just use something like #define AT_WIPE

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Lukáš Czerner: On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: I'm already spending a lot of time trying to convince the developers here, that this a feature most people expect from any filesystem. And I've written these patches, for which now, even after I've

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Lukáš Czerner: I'll give up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Lukáš Czerner
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: > Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:50:53 +0100 > From: Alexander Holler > To: Lukáš Czerner > Cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure >

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 03.02.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Alexander Holler: Maybe I should request removal of shred from Fedora/RH instead. According to you it's one of the most misleading and useless tools. So why still confuse people with it and still ship it? At

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Alexander Holler: Maybe I should request removal of shred from Fedora/RH instead. According to you it's one of the most misleading and useless tools. So why still confuse people with it and still ship it? At least it should be documented that it doesn't delete

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 14:50 schrieb Lukáš Czerner: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:05:11 +0100 From: Alexander Holler To: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Holler Subject: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Lukáš Czerner
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:05:11 +0100 > From: Alexander Holler > To: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Holler > Subject: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion >

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files Hi, I am missing a description, where you'd describe what is this all about, why and how. Maybe you've missed the introduction, patch 0/5. Sorry, but I'm not sponsored and the time I can spend is limited. Therefor

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Alexander Holler: Maybe I should request removal of shred from Fedora/RH instead. According to you it's one of the most misleading and useless tools. So why still confuse people with it and still ship it? At least it should be documented that it doesn't delete

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 03.02.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Alexander Holler: Maybe I should request removal of shred from Fedora/RH instead. According to you it's one of the most misleading and useless tools. So why still confuse people with it and still ship it? At

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Lukáš Czerner: I'll give up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Lukáš Czerner: On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: I'm already spending a lot of time trying to convince the developers here, that this a feature most people expect from any filesystem. And I've written these patches, for which now, even after I've

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Lukáš Czerner
Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de Subject: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files Hi, I am missing a description, where you'd describe what is this all about, why and how. Maybe you've missed the introduction, patch 0/5. Sorry, but I'm

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Lukáš Czerner
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:05:11 +0100 From: Alexander Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de To: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de Subject: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s

Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
BTW., if someone still likes my trivial approach and thinks the patches might be usable because they contain just a few silly changes which might be easily rebased onto future kernel versions, I suggest to get rid of the new syscall and just use something like #define AT_WIPE

[PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-02 Thread Alexander Holler
Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler --- fs/ext4/ext4.h| 2 ++ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 25 +++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 12 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index c55a1fa..e66507c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h

[PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files

2015-02-02 Thread Alexander Holler
Signed-off-by: Alexander Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de --- fs/ext4/ext4.h| 2 ++ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 25 +++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 12 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index c55a1fa..e66507c 100644