On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:32:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since we have Windows and OS2 application viewers of huge directories, it > impacts our users. > They have now to scroll big number of pages or use search functions with > patterns multiple times. > There are not critical applications, but it is a bit of pain for users. > > Anyway, is there a rule of the way samba server lists filenames ? > If we stop/start samba server, the directory list order is kept, so it > sounds like there is a rule, but which ?
Samba simply returns names as seen in the readdir order - we don't ever read the entire directory into memory (we used to but this was a disaster for performance in large directories). It's possible we could add a parameter to sort the slice of the directory we're currently processing, but I'm not going to write this patch - but I will review it if someone else does. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
