Bill Cole wrote:
At 12:27 PM +0100 2/14/08, Edgar Fuß wrote:
Am 13.02.2008 um 14:56 schrieb Bill Cole:
Not on all filesystems. Note what HFS+ (MacOS) does:
~ $ ls -lc foo -rwxr-xr-x 1 wkc wkc 332 Jan 29 03:32 foo ~ $ mkdir foodir ~ $ mv foo foodir ~ $ ls -lc foodir/foo -rwxr-xr-x 1 wkc wkc 332 Jan 29 03:32 foodir/foo ~ $ date Wed Feb 13 08:39:24 EST 2008
It's what I'd expect. In fact, it's what UFS does. Renaming a file doesn't change it's inode.
That's not true for the Solaris 9 implementation of UFS:
$ uname -a SunOS sysadm05 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 $ df -k . Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d2 6050021 5050411 939110 85% / $ grep dsk/d2 /etc/mnttab /dev/md/dsk/d2 / ufs rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540002 1202637838 $ ls -lc jar_cache30536.tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 colew adm 64258 Jan 13 22:28 jar_cache30536.tmp $ mv $_ foo $ ls -lc foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 colew adm 64258 Feb 14 09:53 foo
same under *BSD (tested on FreeBSD and NetBSD):
% ll -c foo -rw-r--r-- 1 mouss mouss - 30 Jan 11 00:20 foo % mv foo bar % ll -lc bar -rw-r--r-- 1 mouss mouss - 30 Feb 14 18:15 bar