something odd with the order of files in a directory

Folkert van Heusden folkert at vanheusden.com
Fri Jan 16 15:44:24 UTC 2009


> > When I put files in a directory in a certain order on an
> > ext3-filesystem, the order is not kept. On fat-filesystem it does.
> 
> This is due to the dir_index feature; you're getting them back in hash
> (read: random) order.  If you turn it off:

Ah ok, thanks!


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