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Message-ID: <yq1mwd8jo4z.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:44:28 -0400 From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, JP Abgrall <jpa@...gle.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Geremy Condra <gcondra@...gle.com>, "linux-fsdevel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Add support for SFITRIM, an ioctl for secure FITRIM. >>>>> "Lukáš" == Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> writes: >> Scrubbing is something people already understand and it's clear that >> it's a data manipulation operation and not some magic "secure" >> operation. And by calling it "scrub" we get away from the idea that >> it only works on specific hardware - hardware acceleration is good, >> but there's no reason why we should design the functionality to only >> be useful on systems with hardware scrubbing capability... Lukáš> +1 for the "scrub" operation, it makes perfect sense to me. I'm not sure I agree with the choice of "scrub" to describe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scrubbing What about purge or sanitize? That's what the security folks generally use... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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