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[ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.
- Subject: [ale] Need an iso to wipe hard drives.
- From: lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:25:42 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1271973045.2941.34.camel@cfowler-desktop>
- References: <20100421211142.LVSK1.2621253.root@mp11> <[email protected]> <1271970350.2941.31.camel@cfowler-desktop> <1271973045.2941.34.camel@cfowler-desktop>
Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:05 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
>
>> Why? Did shutdown not flush all buffers and umount the file system?
>> Maybe we were just being paranoid?
>>
> http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSync
I disagree with this document, at least as early as SVR3 is concerned.
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