File Moving on Mounted Devices (NFS/ Samba)

[Z Zia]

Hello,

An Interesting Observation: We can move files from Java using renameTo() function, one of my solution is distributed in 3 tiers. First 2 on linux (NFS mapping) and 3 tier is on windows (Samba mapping). When I try to move files from one linux system folder to other (NFS) or linux system to windows system folder(samba), it doesn't returns any errors but files are not transmitted.

Any clues?

Regards,
Zeeshan

[Stefan Wagner]

If you move a file on a single device, only an entry in a filetable needs to be changed, for example from /mnt/hdf4/foo/bar.txt to /mnt/hdf4/bar/bar/bar/bar.txt. The file itself isn't read or written. It's just renamed.

If you try to write it to a different device, it needs to be read and written, and can't just be renamed.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

renameTo() fails by returning "false"; it will generally fail when, as Stefan says, you try to rename something onto another device. You must always check the return value of "renameTo()" and fall back to bytewise-copying on failure.