* Theodore Tso: > So this is something we could do in the future. In practice, no one > has complained about this as far as NFS is concerned, so it's not high > priority for me to pursue. Were you worried about this as a practical > matter, or as a theoretical one? readdir returning entries in essentially randomized order is a practical performance problem for many things, from grep -r to tar. 8-( (My recent FIBMAP/FIEMAP question was related to that, too.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html