[Thunar-dev] why move takes so long

[Stavros Giannouris]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:43:52 -0300
hernux <hernux at etherac.com.ar> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> moving a file from one folder to another, takes too much time, it
> seems that thunar is coping the file instead of just renaming it.
> Moving a 2GB file with mv command takes just one second and fifteen
> minutes in thunar.
> 
I was wondering about that too, someday, but then I realised that plain
ol' 'mv' command does virtually no sanity checks before it moves the
file.
It is so easy to aim at your foot and pull the trigger when
executing /bin/mv , that a completely different implementation ought to
be made in a desktop file manager.

I don't know if this is the best, but it is surely better if you take
the safety of your data into account :-)

Greets,
> thanx,
> Hernux

PS: I am not Benny, of course and all the above may just be a pile of
bs. You are bewarned!
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