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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