Re: (reiserfs) Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:14:23 +1000

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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:32:49PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
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> Now, I realise that some people may say that mv(1) won't move
> directories across filesystems. True. We should fix mv(1) to
> effectively do <cp -a; rm -rf> (with error checking).

As a data point, I believe that Digital Unix's mv(1) behaves that way.

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