From: Mrmaster Mrmaster <mrsolarlife@...>
Date: 2009-06-17T02:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Which is more expensive Rename or Move?

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Assuming it's on the same filesystem, and you're using a real
> filesystem format (ext2/3, xfs, jfs, etc), they should be almost
> identical....
> 
> According to the docs on the File class though, it uses syscopy for
> move, which seems odd to me, but the performance should be almost
> identical.
> 
> --Kyle

Hi Kyle,

I'm using ext filesystem. Why would they operations be identical? I 
thought the directories are stored in a tree structure so wouldn't it 
require another n(logn) operation to find a new directory during a move?
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