Bill Cole wrote:
At 12:27 PM +0100 2/14/08, Edgar Fuß wrote:
Am 13.02.2008 um 14:56 schrieb Bill Cole:
Not on all filesystems. Note what HFS+ (MacOS) does:
~ $ ls -lc foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 wkc wkc 332 Jan 29 03:32 foo
~ $ mkdir foodir
~ $ mv foo foodir
~ $ ls -lc foodir/foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 wkc wkc 332 Jan 29 03:32 foodir/foo
~ $ date
Wed Feb 13 08:39:24 EST 2008
It's what I'd expect. In fact, it's what UFS does. Renaming a file doesn't
change it's inode.
That's not true for the Solaris 9 implementation of UFS:
$ uname -a
SunOS sysadm05 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
$ df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d2 6050021 5050411 939110 85% /
$ grep dsk/d2 /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d2 / ufs
rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540002 1202637838
$ ls -lc jar_cache30536.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 colew adm 64258 Jan 13 22:28 jar_cache30536.tmp
$ mv $_ foo
$ ls -lc foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 colew adm 64258 Feb 14 09:53 foo
same under *BSD (tested on FreeBSD and NetBSD):
% ll -c foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 mouss mouss - 30 Jan 11 00:20 foo
% mv foo bar
% ll -lc bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 mouss mouss - 30 Feb 14 18:15 bar