On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:33:28 -0700 Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
So really -- you may not like it, but zeroing it is the safest thing to do (besides being a security requirement).
In other words -- other files systems leave those files in a corrupt and undefined state. Are you saying this is preferable?
Of course - if it allows me to recover my config file :-P Really, I was sometimes happy that old reiserfsck --rebuild-tree basically dug up all the stuff that ever was written to a disk, after an accidental rm ;-) But to put some constructive things onto the discussion: I think that ext3 (or maybe nowadays ext4) is still a reasonable default file system for the root and boot partitions. For data partitions, I also use XFS, and am happy with its performance. Until I want to delete a large kernel source tree. Then I'm always annoyed ;-) Besides, you cannot install a boot record onto XFS, so you always need a second partition anyway (Might not be 100% technically correct. You cannot install grub into it at least). -- Stefan Seyfried "Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org