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Excellent article, very informative. I just had to chuckle at this: > Non-engineers: in a computer, a move is always implemented as a copy followed by a delet

• tyingq 8y ago
  It's confusing altogether. For example, that's not how /bin/mv (usually) works.
  • ulysses 8y ago
    Usually, that's because /bin/mv is just changing a link to the file, not moving the file itself. In cases where it's actually moving the file -- say across a file system boundary -- it does copy the file and then delete the old version.
    • the_duke 8y ago
      I reckon it was meant in the context of compaction.