Hello, and sorry to ask a question which seems to me like something which would probably already have been asked, but I didn't see any way to search the mailing list archive, and manual skimming of it turned up nothing. (in addition, that it wasn't listed in the FAQ or features list made me think perhaps it needed to be asked)
Will there be / is there already, a feature to "delete a file completely", meaning to remove a single file in such a way that it can NOT be restored from checkpoints? Perhaps one which can fill existing "versions" of a file with zeros, rather than leaving them as they are? While for day-to-day use, being able to go back to five minutes ago can often be a godsend, I presume there are more than the handful of cases I can think of where "I actually want to leave no trace of that file" would be true. Many situations crop up where one can normally think "it's okay, I'll just remove the password before I hand it over.", but a constantly-logging file-system would default to that not being a safe bet. If nothing else, think of the occasional news article about someone uncovering supposedly "redacted" sections of word documents by viewing history on the file. So I'd expect that it's clear to see it as a necessary feature for "desktop use", but is it supported? _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
