Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?

Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:20:07 +0100


Hi Kent,

> What happened to this feature? Was it too slow or buggy? Did the
> Federales force its removal?
dunno, but:

man 1 chattr:

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
As of Linux 2.2, the `c', 's', and `u' attribute are not honored
by the kernel filesystem code. These attributes will be implemented in
a future ext2 fs version.

Curious to see when the future is ;)

ciao, Marc
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