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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:43:29 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        niek@bergboer.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Subject:   Re: UFS block size vs. write speed
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010424103925.00a81ae0@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010424113536.A61988@wit379119.student.utwente.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104231207360.1931-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20010423134554.A57241@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104231207360.1931-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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Hi,

At 11:35 24/04/01 +0200, Niek Bergboer wrote:
>[...]
>In fact, I couldn't care less if the allocated blocks contain random
>data (rather than zeros), since I'll be overwriting them immediately.

You *should* care: the blocks are zeroed for security reasons.

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