From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2001 17:59:04 +0100
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> I'm not expert in Plan 9, but it seems to me that it breaks it for the
> user.

surely it's "broken for the user" the moment the user can't move a
file from one place to another for any reason at all (e.g.  because
the file is on a different disk, or a different location on the
network, or whatever).

under Windows, where disks and networks are visible at the top level
of the file tree to the user, perhaps this is slightly more
understandable, but where the file tree is unified, the difference
between "can't because it's on a different disk" and "can't because
it's in a different directory" is surely one of degree not of kind?

  rog.