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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:43:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: UFS block size vs. write speed
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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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