On 05/14/2013 01:44 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > There are real reasons why this might not *actually* work. Be aware of > caches, buffers, journals, snapshots, flushes, and RAIDs, oh my!
And on copy-on-write filesystems such as BtrFS and ZFS, I imagine it's not possible to overwrite an existing block; each shred pass would simply allocate a new block. Eventually old blocks would be reused of course. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
