Hi, all. I've got a question about moving files from one location to
another within a Samba share.

I've got 2 boxes that I'm dealing with - 1 Linux box, where the Samba
share lives (running Samba 3.0.10), and a Windows box, which mounts the
share. For the sake of illustration, let's say that the Windows box
mounts it at Z:\, and there are an \outcoming and a \stage directory.

If the Windows box creates a file at one location
(Z:\stage\somefile.txt), and then the Windows box moves that file to
another location (Z:\outgoing\somefile.txt), is that move atomic? It's
within the same filesystem, and if it were done on the Linux box, it
would be - but I don't know how Samba handles it.

As you might imagine, I'm trying to avoid a race condition, with a file
created by a process on the Windows box being processed by another
process on the Linux box. If the operation's not atomic, I'll have the
process create something like a somefile.txt.done file after the file
is in place, and have the Linux process look for that, but if I don't
have to, I won't.

Thanks,
Rich