* Casper.Dik at Sun.COM <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM> [2007-01-23 11:20]: > > > B. The commands will be provided, with requirements that > > > > 1. "Non-FIPS" disclaimer text will be added to required > > manual pages. > > > > 2. Code/functionality duplication accepted, as these > > implementations are common across a variety of platforms > > and downstream deviation presents an ongoing maintenance > > cost. > > > > (shred is already en route to handling similar to B. su is being > > omitted based on an assessment that the cost of steps similar to A > > would be uneconomic.) > > Isn't it the case that schred does not work on ZFS so why provide > it at all?
Yes, shred won't work on ZFS. Bill and Dan were just telling me that snapshots mean it can never really work, so it's probably best to drop it. There are various actions the ZFS team might take to decrease unintended data recovery, but shred isn't equivalent to any of them. I suppose the question is whether the command should be modified to warn about "failure to shred on this filesystem", or simply dropped. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
