Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764890AbXHPRcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:32:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758588AbXHPRcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:32:07 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:48847 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755131AbXHPRcG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:32:06 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Phillip Susi Cc: Kyle Moffett , Michael Tharp , alan , Marc Perkel , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen , Al Viro Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:26 EDT." <46C4893A.4050000@cfl.rr.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> <46C4893A.4050000@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1187285475_618P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:31:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1814.1187285475@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1187285475_618P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:28:26 EDT, Phillip Susi said: > 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. That's how it works *now*. That's *not* what happens with Marc's "Out of Box filesystem", because you need to deal with the fact that the pathnames to everything under it just changed. --==_Exmh_1187285475_618P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGxInjcC3lWbTT17ARAorrAKDqfTnflw83CMVHv4XIywi0WV9ihQCfRE2/ yot230pW3RB63ZSzZsEgy0g= =19JH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1187285475_618P-- - 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/