Re: file shredding tools

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 So then the program would basically have to keep track of how many times the 
actual file was stored as well as all locations at all times. Wouldn't this 
kinda overhead be huge? ~Ben 

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Derek Atkins <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> writes: 
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> The same is true of backups....  I don't consider an offline disk 
> to be that significantly different than a backup. 
> 
> > -dsr- 
> 
> -derek 
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