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| author | Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> | 2017-06-06 16:34:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> | 2017-06-06 16:45:15 -0400 |
| commit | 9f2eb0437104641bcea46dad3d4adcc2c4dd442f (patch) | |
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Document rename workaround.
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@@ -88,6 +88,21 @@ the sshfs developers know! make sudo make install + +Caveats +------- + +Some SSH servers do not support atomically overwriting the destination +when renaming a file. In this case you will get an error when you +attempt to rename a file and the destination already exists. A +workaround is to first remove the destination file, and then do the +rename. SSHFS can do this automatically if you call it with `-o +workaround=rename`. However, in this case it is still possible that +someone (or something) recreates the destination file after SSHFS has +removed it, but before SSHFS had the time to rename the old file. In +this case, the rename will still fail. + + Getting Help ------------ |