Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> I believe '/usr/bin/find' does use the link count for some
> optimization (it assumes a directory has nlink-2 subdirectories, -2
> since 1 for the link from parent to itself, and 1 for the '.'), but
> should fall back to a less optimized mode if it sees a mismatch...
Daniel Phillips wrote:
This additional requirement for rename is unlikely to reduce write
performance perceptably, because write/rename loads are relatively
rare.
[...]
Mass file writes such as cp -a or
untar do not typically use the write/rename method.
cp -a and untar might not, but rsync