Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Harald Hoyer]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> So all in all we have nearly accomplished the 30 Second Startup Feature 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup.
> 
> Well, no; not if this requires data=writeback.  We can't ship that way,
> it's a potential security hole.  You don't want someone's maildir
> suddenly containing pieces of /etc/shadow or whatnot.  The old data that
> may be exposed by data=writeback may not belong to that user.

For my single user desktop with an encrypted filesystem, it makes no difference 
from a security standpoint. Even the pieces of /etc/shadow would be encrypted 
and only I can enter the decryption password after a (power?) failure.