Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-03-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 02.03.2015 um 11:03 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 07.02.2015 um 06:56 schrieb Russ Dill: Luckily there is an easy solution out there that solves all these problems. As I'm curious and have forgotten to ask in my previous mail, about which easy solution you're talking? Regards, Alexande

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-03-02 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 07.02.2015 um 06:56 schrieb Russ Dill: Alexander Holler ahsoftware.de> writes: Hello. I've set up a repository at github which contains the 3 pathches to add limited support to the Linux kernel for wiping files on ext4 and (v)fat with 3 small patches and a total of "9 files changed, 101 i

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-06 Thread Russ Dill
Alexander Holler ahsoftware.de> writes: > > Hello. > > I've set up a repository at github which contains the 3 pathches to add > limited support to the Linux kernel for wiping files on ext4 and (v)fat > with 3 small patches and a total of "9 files changed, 101 insertions(+), > 8 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-06 Thread Alexander Holler
Hello. I've set up a repository at github which contains the 3 pathches to add limited support to the Linux kernel for wiping files on ext4 and (v)fat with 3 small patches and a total of "9 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)" here: https://github.com/aholler/wipe_lnx Feel free

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[CC += linux-api@] Hello Alexander, The kernel source file Documentation/SubmitChecklist notes that all Linux kernel patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-...@vger.kernel.org. See also https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-api-ml.html. Please CC linux-api@ on futur

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 03.02.2015 um 16:15 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes: What's the answer? Easy and obvious, just (try to) overwrite the contents of a file by request from userspace. Filesystems do know where on the storage they have written the contents to, so why not just let them delete that stuff themself instea

Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-03 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> What's the answer? Easy and obvious, just (try to) overwrite the contents > of a file by request from userspace. Filesystems do know where on the > storage they have written the contents to, so why not just let them delete > that stuff themself instead? It's almost unbelievable that this was not

[PATCH 0/5] RFC: Offer a way for userspace to request real deletion of files

2015-02-02 Thread Alexander Holler
Hello, some people already might have noticed that I've got a bit angry that no filesystem nor the posix api nor the linux syscalls are offering the userspace a way to request real deletion of one or more files (there's the 's' bit, see man chattr, but it is ignored by all FS which know it). Alm