Hi, On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 16:56, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Doesn't readdir order == hash order with Ted's NFS fixes for htree? In > that case, if you copied the files in readdir order to a new directory > the inodes would also be in hash order on disk, until you add a new file. > It might be worthwhile for a large directory that changes very little, > but probably a waste of time otherwise. I'm so used to tools sorting readdir output themselves, I'd forgotten that cp would leave the order intact, but I just checked and yes, it does. So yes, that should work, unless of course you're using Ted's preload to resort readdir! Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users