[Gluster-users] file shred

Kingsley Tart gluster at gluster.dogwind.com
Thu Nov 9 09:41:12 UTC 2017


> When I strace `shred filename`, it just seems to write + fsync random 
> values into the file based on some seed from /dev/urandom. Since these 
> are normal syscalls, and since gluster just sends these FOPS to the 
> bricks, it should work fine.
> All caveats listed in `man shred` for the on-disk file system (XFS) 
> still apply.

Thanks Ravi.

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Cheers,
Kingsley.



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