Directory rename semantics.

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> After discussion about this with rwatson and pjd, I decided to do
> the opposite: change ZFS behaviour to match UFS.  Reason is simple:
> this is security, and we want to be conservative here.  It's impossible
> to make sure this change wouldn't cause security problems.

Perhaps it would have been better to either do nothing or create a zfs
property that toggled this behaviour so that people who expect ZFS to
behave a certain way get it.  I'm not sure why we would want all
filesystems to behave the same way, to be honest.

Ceri
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