[Users] The purpose of "Wipe on delete" ?

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Richard Davis wrote:

What is the purpose of the "Wipe on delete" option for a VM disk ? Why would you not want data wiped on delete if the alternative is to leave LV metadata and other data languishing on the SD ?

debugging, cloning, snapshot backups, and giving 'second chances' to undelete, come to mind as reasonable use cases NOT to wipe by default -- Russ herrold