If Gentoo can die off, ReiserFS is doomed (was Re: Reiser FS or ext3?)

[Jeffrey Watts]

Well, he was talking about the government.  They're always ten or more years
behind, so I'm willing to bet that their disk wiping procedures probably DO
date back from when there were MFM drives.  ;-)

J.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I don't believe that dd writes to a disk buffer in RAM.  Certainly, the
> drive itself may use a write buffer, but writing the entire disk would
> easily exhaust that buffer.  I don't know why they would want thousands of
> passes though. They may have had a point back in the days of MFM hard
> drives, but encoding schemes have become very sophisticated.  Modern hard
> drives must employ extensive error correction codes just to be able to read
> the last written contents of a sector reliably, I stand by my contention
> that alternating 0s and random junk for a total of a dozen passes should
> render the data completely inaccessible to anyone (with the possible
> exception of those spy agencies, and I'm not even sure about them).
>
>

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