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Date:      Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:46:10 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c 
Message-ID:  <18752.1002008770@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2001 21:26:58 PDT." <200110020426.f924Qw605686@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200110020426.f924Qw605686@freefall.freebsd.org>, Matt Dillon writes
:
>dillon      2001/10/01 21:26:58 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/ufs/ufs          ufs_vnops.c 
>  Log:
>  Backout the last commit.  The problem is actually much worse then I
>  first thought and may require serious work to the VOP_RENAME() api itself.
>  Basically, by the time the VOP_RENAME() function is called, it's already
>  too late.

I chatted with Rob Pike about rename, in particular in the context of
remote filesystems and plan9.

To avoid the nightmare of our VOP_RENAME, in plan9 you can only rename 
inside one directory.

While not an option for us, I can certainly see why they did that...

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