Re: open()ing a directory without O_DIRECTORY

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 11:57 AM Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mar 3, 2019, at 2:49 PM, George Georgalis <[email protected]> wrote:
> If a sysctl is added to overwrite (file/directory) data on delete, I would
> suggest at least 3 settings, 1) none, 2) background, low priority
> overwrite, 3) atomic blocking, ie the rm command doesn't return until
> successful overwrite completes.
>
> I don't think it is going to be expensive to zero the directory entry on
> delete. We are not talking about the data (only the metadata).
>

Oh I thought the conversation had expanded to over writing old file data
too, which would seem a grater value add than the dirent overwrite.

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