> > >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.
So it can be transparently solved in the VFS layer (also nice for moving files back from cloned snapshots and such) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
