linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4

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Date:	Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:35:30 -0500
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	Nikolai Joukov <kolya@...sunysb.edu>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Secure Deletion and Trash-Bin Support for Ext4

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:44:27PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> Maybe we should be using EAs for this sort of thing instead of flags
> on the inode? If we keep adding inode flags for generic features
> then we are going to force more than just XFS into inode format
> changes eventually....

Aren't EAs slow? Maybe not on XFS but on other filesystems...

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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