On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jose Carlos Benfati wrote:
> Try "man chattr". Here is part of what I found:
>
> When a file with the `s' attribute set is deleted, its
> blocks are zeroed and written back to the disk.
>
>
Use the source Luke ... linux/fs/ext2/truncate.c,35+10:
#if 0
/*
* Secure deletion currently doesn't work. It interacts very badly
* with buffers shared with memory mappings, and for that reason
* can't be done in the truncate() routines. It should instead be
* done separately in "release()" before calling the truncate routines
* that will release the actual file blocks.
*
* Linus
*/
Bryn
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