Wishful thinking
Wishful thinking
Posted Mar 18, 2009 0:14 UTC (Wed) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)In reply to: Wishful thinking by bojan
Parent article: Garrett: ext4, application expectations and power management
What POSIX specifies is that a compliant system, upon a system crash, can hunt down all hard copies that have been made and burn them, after overwriting the data on the disk seven times with zeros, ones, and random data. I'm not sure how an application is supposed to allow for that.