currently mv fails to detect an identical filesystem of source and destination file across bind mounts
instead of using the rename syscall mv copies the file (to the same filesystem) and then deletes the source file obviously, this is not ideal: - slow - waste of disk space - change of inode number - unnecessary disk write operations (destructive) > currently mv fails to detect an identical filesystem > of source and destination file across bind mounts this is possible using /proc/self/mountinfo proof of concept: https://github.com/milahu/move-files-across-bind-mounts related: https://serverfault.com/questions/327447 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/406351 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/380025
