On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:19 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Nov 04, 2008 11:49 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > I said earlier that you could use mv. I'm not positive that will always > > have the desired results so likely you should stick with cp/rm. > > Using "mv" will only rename the inode on the MDS, it doesn't change any > of the data. That is true for local filesystems as well as Lustre.
Indeed. This is exactly the problem I was thinking of when I corrected myself and is very important to note with regard to the OP's followup about using mv vs. cp/rm. Thanx for clarifying, Andreas. b.
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