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[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 09:35 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:22 -0400, John Szakmeister wrote:
> > 
> > > ^- Presumably you don't need to 'mv foo foo.old' on POSIX platforms?
> > 
> > Or maybe leave it as is, if the goal is to do a better job on remote
> > filesystems?  For instance, if I mount my Windows share under my Linux
> > box? 
> 
> Its an OS thing [for the most part - definitely as far as 'local'
> resources like working trees]. On linux a VFAT file system 'behaves' as
> though mv foo bar works when bar exists. It actually isn't, so its
> possible for power failures to leave the disk messy. I'm not 100% sure
> whether a SMB mount can do 'mv foo bar' when bar exists.
Depends on whether the server and client support the Unix extensions and
both have them enabled... :-)

Cheers,

Jelmer


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