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mv broken on non-APFS filesystems on macOS on coreutils >= 9.0

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Message #8 received at 52193 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sudhip Nashi <sudhipnashi <at> icloud.com>, 52193 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Cameron Katri <me <at> cameronkatri.com>
Subject: Re: bug#52193: mv broken on non-APFS filesystems on macOS on
 coreutils >= 9.0
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:51:17 -0800

On 11/29/21 16:50, Sudhip Nashi via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:

> It appears that in coreutils 9.0 and greater, the mv command is broken on non-APFS filesystems on macOS. For example, on Apple tmpfs, it fails whenever moving a file with ENOTSUPP.

I don't observe this problem with the latest development version of 
coreutils. Here's how I tried to reproduce the problem on macOS 11.3.1 
20E241:

% touch /tmp/xxxx
% src/mv /tmp/xxxx /tmp/yyyy

and it worked OK.

I just put a copy of the latest coreutils source here:

https://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-9.0.36-5e36c.tar.gz

Could you give it a try?

Possibly this is related to the other bug report you mention, since mv 
falls back on cp's algorithm. But if so, I hope that the recent fix to 
cp also fixed mv.

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