RE: binary file size limit? (4.2GB retry - success)

 
That's definitely not true, at least on NTFS. If you move it to a different
partition, then it has to duplicate the data (if you know of a filesystem
out there that doesn't, lemme know), but anywhere on the partition is cheap.

FAT32 may be a different story, but who would use FAT32?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bowden [mailto:jlb@houseofdistraction.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:55 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: binary file size limit? (4.2GB retry - success)

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that on MSDOS and MS Windows the
'mv' operation is only cheap when the file stays in the same directory
(i.e. it's actually a 'rename'). When the file moves to another
directory it is first copied to the new location and then the source
gets deleted.

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