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Subject: Re: [9fans] wstat and atomic directory change
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On Tue Feb  3 01:01:02 PST 2015, steve@quintile.net wrote:

> the control file idea is a neat way of doing atomic moves.
>

control files are a good way of dealing with all kinds of exceptional behavior.

but ...

to be fair, this goes against the unix ideal of having uniform file operations.
this requires delving into the namespace to tell that the directories are still under the
same mount, and some non-uniform operations.

so, it's not without a cost.

- erik