From: Mrmaster Mrmaster <mrsolarlife@...>
Date: 2009-06-17T09:56:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Which is more expensive Rename or Move?

Phil Romero wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Mrmaster
> Mrmaster<mrsolarlife@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just to add a bit more to this conversation, the only time an mv
> operation would be more expensive is in the case of actually mv'ing
> across filesystems.  You could have mv'd a file from say your
> /home/username directory on sda1 to /newhome/username on sda2 (two
> physically different partitions).  Strange that this would come up.  I
> think rename is mv with a cross filesystem limitation.  I don't use
> rename for anything in *nix, always has been mv.

I think the rename command in the linux box calls a perl script too 
which will add to the cost.
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