Frank Hofmann wrote: > > > 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.
This implies that we'd also have to look at allowing link(2) to also function between filesystems where rename(2) was going to work without doing a copy, correct? Which I suppose makes sense. Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
