On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:02:07PM -0500, Jeff Teitel wrote: > > > > Some time ago I asked how I could split my datastore across multiple > > filesystems. The answer I got was to creat symbolic links from the store > > directory to the other FS. I've done this but it doesn't seem to work. > > I have investigated further. The straight answer is you can't. We could > implement a rename across filesystems call, but we'd end up copying data > while holding important locks; this is not a good idea. Just use LVM to > combine the disks, or run multiple nodes.
As a note, you can pretty much depend on files in the same directory
being on the same filesystem. (It would take extremely unusual setups
to change that)
Therefore, you can copy to {datastore}/04/.1-XXXXX and rename that file
to {datastore}/04/1-XXXXX. Only the rename would need to be inside the
lock.
I don't know of any system that supports a "rename across filesystems",
since that can block for an arbitrarily long time. The standard program
mv(1) actually attempts to rename first, then emulates cp(1) if the
rename fails.
--Dan
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