Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:03:48 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: Summary of how linux can best avoid the need for streams |
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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. > 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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