Nathan Scott wrote:
: XFS behaves as most filesystems do and
: will write over the top of existing data.
OK, thanks for the clarification.
: XFS also rewrites files in-place. You will never get someone else's
: current data (that would be metadata corruption...),
Of course.
: it would only
: ever be uninitialised, previously-free space.
Yes, but an old data from previously deleted files
(sendmail's temporary files, vim save files, etc) may contain
a sensitive information.
-Y.
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