From: Andrew Haylett <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk> Subject: Re: Bug in 'msdos' file system? Date: 24 Feb 1993 09:55:31 -0500
danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
: Without knowing the internals too well, my sense is telling me that it's
: a BAD IDEA to move files between two file systems, especially between as
: different ones as Linux and DOS has. In cases like that the files
: probably should be copied, not moved because I imagine mv leaves the
: actual data in place and only relinks directory pointers to that data.
Hang on, there's some misinformation floating around here. 'mv' is
cleverer than that. If the destination is on a different file system
from the source, then 'mv' does a copy followed by an unlink. So the
alleged problem with the DOS FS is nothing to do either with wrong user
action or 'mv' behaviour. And no special kernel action required, either.