On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.best...@nexenta.com> wrote: > Why not just ask the volume driver to "delete securely" or 'delete with > wipe'? > It could even be a level of erasure, if people want to be real paranoid. > Whatever it is, the vendor's volume driver will know the best way to do it. > > I'm afraid maybe I wasn't clear above, what I was saying is that there *is* already a configuration option for secure delete (secure_delete=None) for example will skip the dd operation altogether as well as provide some other options in terms of how a secure delete is done.
I agree that it's necessary in some environments, and that some won't want to use thin provisioning which is fine. I completely agree that we need to come up with a compromise here, I just wanted to point out the options that exist today. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
