Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

From: Phillip Susi
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 13:28:50 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
What happens if I do a 'mv /home /home1'? Looks like more than a "relatively
small" number. A cold-cache 'find' takes a few minutes to wade through it all,
so any solutions you come up with should beware of locking issues...

Then the directory is moved.... one dentry on disk needs changed to reflect the new name.
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