Cross filesystem move behavior
Elrond
elrond at samba-tng.org
Mon May 14 15:07:43 GMT 2001
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:28:51AM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> Michael Gerdts writes:
>
> > When a share crosses file systems, "moving" a file from one file system to
> > another fails from an NT client (ERRnaccess). This appears to be a result
> > of conn->vfs_ops.rename() failing. Since it eventually just calls
> > rename(), that is expected. Relevant log entries are:
>
> [...]
>
> > I am not promising to implement this, but if I am looking for a smallish
> > coding project I may implement it. That is, assuming that I don't have
> > people screaming "That idea sucks!"
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Go for it.
[...]
Just as a hint, where to look for good code on this:
GNU fileutils has this all in its mv. Since it's GPL, there
is no problem to reuse the code.
> Tim.
Elrond
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