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Re: LYNX-DEV DIRED mods


From: Drazen Kacar
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV DIRED mods
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:20:45 +0100 (MET)

Klaus Weide wrote:
> 
> Ok, this is of course a definite bug.  Lynx shouldn't crash.
> The following message: 
> 
> > mv: can't mv directories across file systems
> 
> makes sense, mv indeed cannot move directories across file systems...
> (to circumvent that, a different command, or series of commands, would
> have to be used; something like first `cp -p', then `rm'.  That's
> probably not worth the trouble, and it could be difficult to protect
> against loss of file if e.g. the target filesystem becomes full while
> copying.)

But if anyone wants to implement it, cp like behavior is not a good choice.
It can't detect gaps in file and skip them. You have this with core files,
for example. The size of a file is huge, but it actually takes a modest
amount of disk space, since most of the file are zeros and pages with
zeros only are not stored on disk. Cp will create files that really have
all those zeros.

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