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Is `mv dir dir2` atomic ?

if I rename a dir
mv dir dir2

Is this operation atomic? Suppose there 100 files in dir, does linux rename them one by one or at once?

In other words, is there a time at which both dir and dir2 exist, with dir has, say 30 files and dir2 has the rest 70 files?
 

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