John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
mv in a shell only works on file systems. And it doesn't do the link + un-link across partitions, but you knew that. That's not true. mv is happy to move cross-filesystem. Not on all OS to be sure but it does on Suse.
Cheers, Dave --
I didn't say it would not move "cross-filesystems".
I said it wouldn't move across raw networks (It requires a mounted filesystem). You can't mv to/from an ftp site (for exmple).
Huh? I'm confused. Actually, in the context of this thread, this is the first you've mentioned anything about raw networks or ftp sites.
And the speed trick (link-unlink) only works within a single partition. (Which is a great time saver, and the only situation where mv is faster, and should have been done by Kong. Had Kong simply handed off a drag and drop from mounted file systems to mv it would have been much faster. But apparently doing that simple test (is source and desitination it on a mounted filesystem) was something the kong developers simply did not do.
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