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

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (tech.support@redestb.es)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:26:05 +0200

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:32:49PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 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).

Depends on mv. A posix compilant mv(1) won't, but a GNU fileutils >= 4.0
will.

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