On Jan 23, 2009 10:19 +0100, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Folkert van Heusden wrote: >> I then would expect: >> a.b >> a.c >> a.a >> >> but instead I get >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-16 12:59 .. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-16 12:59 a.c >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-16 12:59 a.b >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-16 12:59 a.a >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-16 12:59 . > > Hm, is this reproducible? Which kernel, mount-options, arch? > Here on 2.6.24/amd64 the "directory order" (GNU/ls -U resp. BSD/ls -f) > seems to work as expected: There is no such thing as "directory order" in Unix. It can change at any time, with the caveat that a single process doing a single readdir() will get each entry existing at the start and end of readdir exactly once. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
