From f74a1fa4f0b1a928a85c1316dfceb42637624a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Vidal <skvidal@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:15:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make atomic_replace use shutil.copy2 instead of os.rename()
 so it will work across filesystems

---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index 8e221ad9e7..508fe93de1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -797,7 +797,11 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             if self.selinux_enabled():
                 context = self.selinux_default_context(dest)
                 self.set_context_if_different(src, context, False)
-        os.rename(src, dest)
+        try:
+            shutil.copy2(src, dest)
+        except shutil.Error, e:
+            self.fail_json(msg='Could not atomic_replace file: %s to %s: %s' % (src, dest, e))
+            
 
     def run_command(self, args, check_rc=False, close_fds=False, executable=None, data=None):
         '''