Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933260AbXHPR2q (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758408AbXHPR2g (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:36 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:2647 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932262AbXHPR2Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <46C4893A.4050000@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:26 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Kyle Moffett , Michael Tharp , alan , Marc Perkel , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen , Al Viro Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems References: <106259.96671.qm@web52501.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <46C2F96D.5030908@partiallystapled.com> <20070815133021.GB9412@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <46C33934.7060802@cfl.rr.com> <46C3644C.9020102@cfl.rr.com> <87EEB1B3-7FFA-472C-B539-1A7AA2843869@mac.com> <46C37AD4.5060006@cfl.rr.com> <46C4689C.8020702@cfl.rr.com> <17471.1187278162@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <17471.1187278162@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Aug 2007 17:28:35.0682 (UTC) FILETIME=[E0207420:01C7E02A] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.5.0.1243-5.0.1021-15366.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--9.963000-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 12 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > What happens if I do a 'mv /home /home1'? Looks like more than a "relatively > small" number. A cold-cache 'find' takes a few minutes to wade through it all, > so any solutions you come up with should beware of locking issues... Then the directory is moved.... one dentry on disk needs changed to reflect the new name. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/