Ray Johnson wrote:
>
> We just moved a folder of a large number of files under a folder to a
> new location. On the client doing the move it was a painless thing.
> However, for other clients it seemed to have to download all the files
> again as "new" files and the a delete of the old location. In this
> because the directory was so large it took a while to do.
>
> I'm curious why the behavior for the second client was not more like a
> "move" then all the adds and a delete. Is this be design for some
> reason? Or is it an optimization waiting to happen?
Currently, rename or move are implemented as a copy+delete. Yes, this is
an optimization waiting to happen, but it'll be a while; first, the
server has to implement "real" renames; then the client has to learn to
handle them during updates.
-- Brane
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Received on Mon May 10 08:05:41 2004