Re: file shredding tools

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing 
<[hidden email]> wrote: 

>  But you would assume that a commercial utility would brag about 
>  the differences if there were any, right? 


The main issue as I see it is regulatory compliance. The man page for 
the GNU coreutils "shred" command mentions that it's not guaranteed 
to work on journaled or log-structured filesystems, or on RAID volumes. 
I had mentioned that to the guy who is negotiating the compliance details 
with the customer, and the customer responded that the data cannot 
reside on our normal customer server due to this, so I now need to build 
a separate server for customer ITAR data. 


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