On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:44:06AM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > Zero only the mlocked regions. This should take essentially no time at > > all. Swsusp knows which these are because they have to be mlocked > > after resume as well. If it's not mlocked, it's liable to be swapped > > out anyway. > > Nitpicking: > What happens if the disk decides to relocate a close to failing sector > containing mlocked data during resume zeroing? This just means that > there will be sensitive data around on the disk that can't be zeroed > out anymore but which might be recovered by specialized > companies/institutions. > Encrypting these data in the first place reduces this problem to a > single potentially problematic sector.
Well that's what the dmcrypt phase is for. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
