Subject: Re: FFS reliability problems
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/07/2002 16:21:41
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:10:31AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > Just one question I think is important to the discussion: what about
> > security? If it is possible to recover unlinked files, is there anyway to
> > guarantee that this information is NOT recoverable if the user wishes?
> 
> If you care that much, have the app overwrite it.
> 
> Everything that's been discussed so far would not be standard, and would
> be something you do when you boot into single-user mode. If you don't

Actually, it's been repeatedly advocated by some people in this thread
that relinking referenceless files *should* be the standard behaviour.

I could not be more opposed to that behaviour as the default.

Thor