Re: Adding of peter gutmann's paper concept to /bin/rm

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ted Unangst wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com wrote:
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> perhaps). read the epilogue to the paper. "In fact performing the full

But in order to deceide which passes can be skipped; rm(1) would need to be tought the hardware characteristics of each drive type. This information is essentially not available to the kernel.

So the alternative would be to have flags for PRML, RLL or MFM drive types and rely on the user to know his or her disks. Most, if not all, users would punt in this case and opt for the 'paranoid' flag to run all 35 passes - just incase.

Dw Received on Fri Mar 28 16:48:23 2003