> But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are > open files within an otherwise empty directory. > > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty. NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same directory. I don't see that ssh/sftp needs to do that. Instead it can sillyrename anywhere in the filesystem. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html