[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

[Thomas Backlund]

Buchan Milne skrev 5.8.2011 13:42:
> On Friday, 5 August 2011 12:14:14 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>
>> Otherwise users may be duped into a false sense of security by
>> installing the "secure deletes" package and then delete files thorough
>> Nautilus or Konq under the false impression they are securely deleted.
>
> Or from another Mageia host with a stock rm over NFS or similar, or from a
> non-Mageia client via Samba, sftp or fish etc., DAV or any of the non-
> commandline ways of deleting a file.
>

And another problem with "secure erase" both on tool and filesystem 
level...

It wont work on SSDs due to their firmware implemented wear leveling ...

really think srm should stay as parallell installable with original rm 
intact.

--
Thomas