Hi!
>
> > But how do you solve the following: mv <dir> <some_other_dir>
> > The parent changes. You need to go through all the subdirs of <dir> and change
> > the TID. This is really hard to get right and to avoid deadlocks
> > and races... At least it seems to me so.
>
> Provided you are tracking the total size in each directory, it's just a
> matter of subtracting dir's size from the old parent, and adding it to the
> new parent. (With suitable checks beforehand to avoid a result which
> exceeds quota.)
And what about hardlinks?
Pavel
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