On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Darren Reed wrote: [ ... ] > Is this behaviour defined by a standard (such as POSIX or the > VFS design) or are we free to innovate here and do something > that allowed such a shortcut as required?
Wrt. to standards, quote from: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rename.html ERRORS The rename() function shall fail if: [ ... ] [EXDEV] [CX] The links named by new and old are on different file systems and the implementation does not support links between file systems. Hence, it's implementation-dependent, as per IEEE1003.1. FrankH. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss