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Re: file shredding tools



 On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 
> Bill Ricker wrote: 
> >Or add a non-Raid non-Jfs filesystem for their data on existing server ? 
> 
> I have always thought that Linux software raid 1 was pretty 
> straightforward.  Would you expect tools like shred and srm to work as 
> well on sw raid 1 as on a raw disk? 

Consider a disk mirror pair in which one member is temporarily 
offline at the time when the shred command is issued... until it 
resyncs, there's another copy out there you don't know anything 
about. 

-dsr- 


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