Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:18:10PM -0800:
[snip]
I've actually done this. That's how I know it will crash the system. Read
the internym. Also, anyone who was in my class for Linux Cluster Technology
at SDSU knows what happens. They also now know not to blindly trust the
instructor :o
Well.... "Never run a command unless you know what it will do."
Now, if you had people bring in their own laptops...
So... we need an "init" level that (a) uses no swap, (b) runs as
much as possible in the ramdisk, and (c) has a statically-linked
version of shred on that ramdisk...
-Stewart "telinit 9" Stremler
I'm curious about something. Would this method be as effective with a
journaling filesystem or would the journal be shredded/randomized/zeroed
too? I read somewhere(can't find it now that I need the damn thing) that
even shredding the disk may not work in that case. Didn't understand why
not though if the entire disk is wiped. The journal has to be somewhere
on the disk, right?
Robert Donovan
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