[rsbac] secure delete and journaling filesystems

[Amon Ott]

On Samstag, 23. August 2003 15:14, Josh Beagley wrote:
> With the majority of journaling filesystems, such as ext3 and XFS,
> combined with using rsbac secure delete, is there risk of data though to
> be "securely deleted" being recovered from the filesystem journal?

The secure_delete code in RSBAC fsyncs all data before it gets deleted. I 
expect the filesystems to honour the sync call correctly, but cannot tell for 
sure. Also, I do not know how the journal data is kept on disk.

-- 
Amon.