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

[Dana Smith]

I can't figure out why the government just doesn't remove the hard drives
and send them to a shredder.  Even a private individual can achieve roughly
the same level of security with a drill and a 1/2" drill bit. With the price
of drives being what they are now it can't impact very much the resale value
of the computer to sell it without a drive installed.



On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  The government standard is a medium security level application that
>> specifies overwriting a hard drive six times through three iterations. Each
>> iteration consists of two write-passes on a hard drive. The first iteration
>> removes the files over at the drive surface, while the second iteration
>> registers "zeros" on the surface.
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>
> What the hell does that even mean?
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> "removes the files over at the drive surface"
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> It sounds like they say to write six times to the drive, with the
> even-numbered writes being 0s.  I suggested twice that.  So what do they
> recommend writing on the odd-numbered passes if not (pseudo)random junk?
>
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