On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:46:45AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > This doesn't make the 'mv' itself ATOMIC. 'mv' is usually imple-
> > mented as an unlink, create and copy operation. This is certainly
> > not atomic, even though it might take shorter than other ops.
>
> Anyway, it's definitely better than "postmap"-ing in place.

ah .. if you do mv(1) on the same filesystem (partition), then
it would call rename(2). rename(2) operation is atomic.

Regards,

P.Y. Adi Prasaja

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