Use FileUtils.moveDirectory to support cross-filesystem moves#343
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Signed-off-by: Laurent Delatte <ldelatte@cosium.com>
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Problem
When running tests locally with
./mvnw --batch-mode clean verify, moveFiles() fails with:Root cause
On Ubunut, /tmp is mounted as tmpfs, while the project directory lives on a disk filesystem (ext4, in my case).
Files.move()delegates toUnixFileSystemProvider.move()→UnixFileSystem.move()→UnixCopyFile.move(), which calls the native methodrename. This native method wraps the Linux rename syscall, which fails with cross-device linkerror when source and target are on different filesystems. Java handles this fallback for files (copy + delete) with the copyOption, but for non-empty directories it has no recursive fallback it calls
ensureEmptyDir()on the source and immediately throwsDirectoryNotEmptyException. cf. this comment on Files.moveWhy it passes on GitHub Actions and not locally
The repo GitHub Actions Ubuntu runners do not mount /tmp as tmpfs, it is part of the root filesystem. Source and target are on the same filesystem, rename succeeds, and the tests pass. cf this comment
Fix
Replace
Files.move()withFileUtils.moveDirectory(), which performs a recursive copy + delete and correctly handles cross-filesystem directory moves