-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2010 03:16 AM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:33:28 -0700 Linda Walsh
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
Haha, yeah, except that it could also allow someone else to recover your mail cache instead. - -Jeff
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).
- -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxpU1cACgkQLPWxlyuTD7L4WwCfbCOqYpkKv1h94k2WNM1+ZIDx sJkAoI1lNgrCZ0Eezq+Glt4H+Gel1lhg =Wy4b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org