[zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread russell aspinwall
Are tools necessary to ensure that deleted ZFS pools can not be recovered or that deleted filesystems are really deleted? If the current delete commands do offer some level of data recovery, is worth offering a destroy command which deletes and ensures no means of recovery other than a backup?

Re: [zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread Darren J Moffat
russell aspinwall wrote: Are tools necessary to ensure that deleted ZFS pools can not be recovered or that deleted filesystems are really deleted? dd if=/dev/zero over the disks, or use format(1M) analyze - purge. For just a single filesystem you can get some comfort level by doing: zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread russell aspinwall
Thanks for clearing up the issue -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Darren J Moffatdarr...@opensolaris.org wrote: russell aspinwall wrote: Are tools necessary to ensure that deleted ZFS pools can not be recovered or that deleted filesystems are really deleted? dd if=/dev/zero over the disks, or use format(1M) analyze -