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

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:03:48 +0200

> > > 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.
> Linux's mv from fileutils-4.0 does behave that way.

Unfortunately that same mv has some serious bugs.

Recently a simple `mv * dir/' copied files on my disk as well as moving
them. Same filesystem. (This only happens occasionally -- actually the
erroneous copy happens lots but it usually deletes the copies after
writing them!)

(Bug reported to GNU).

-- Jamie

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