On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I downloaded (on a well-connected machine) a file to a dir in coda,
> named cfs.pdf.
> I looked at it on a poorly-connected client (long wait, worked ok).
> 
> On the fast client, I did 'mkdir FS; mv cfs.pdf FS'.
> The slow client got an invalidation callback.
> 
> I then did 'cd FS; md5 *'.  The client fetched cfs.pdf anew.
> It would be really nice if it could have kept the bits and associated
> them with the new file, either by SHA1 hash or an explicit tracking of
> the move. 
> 
> Actually, I would have expected this to work, since there is no reason
> for the fid  to have changed.  Or does the move change the VV or
> storeid?

Correct, I wonder why it refetched the file. I can see it might refetch
the attributes because the move operation possibly also invalidated
those (mtime/ctime), but as the object itself hasn't changed it should
not have to refetch the data.

Jan