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

[R P Herrold]

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