Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 13:32:21 EST


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:26 EDT, Phillip Susi said:
> 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.

That's how it works *now*.

That's *not* what happens with Marc's "Out of Box filesystem", because you need
to deal with the fact that the pathnames to everything under it just changed.

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