Re: is shred available?

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

John Wright <john@dryfish.org> wrote:

> >  -P    Overwrite regular files before deleting them.
> 
> If softupdates is going to buffer stuff is there only going to be one write
> to disk?

Soft updates deal with _meta_ data rather than data, so they don't
affect this at all.  "rm -P" does an fsync() after each pass, so
regular buffer caching doesn't affect it either.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de