On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:Well, actually now that I think about it, even if your script did what I had thought it did, it still wouldn't clear out the journal area if data logging was on.
I liked Jason's script. Maybe we should consider putting it in reiserfsprogs. Haven't yet looked at Tom's tool.....
You might have misunderstood the script. It doesn't do secure delete. It just demonstrates how shred is ineffective on journalling filesystems.
-J
If someone wants to fix this issue, they are welcome to do so and send us a patch. Tom, can you resend your link to me in private email (I left it in russia....).
-- Hans
