I just turned dir_index OFF with tune2fs. Now the directory order is the
same as the inode order.
This makes the order of files predictable and in fact turns out to solve
my problem.
With dir_index turned OFF on that filesystem, when a copy is made to
another directory (even from Windows on
I hope someone familiar with the way Linux processes files can enlighten
me on the following:
I recently replaced an old Windows 2000 server with a new machine
running CentOS 5.2. It uses Samba 3.2.7 to serve a network of Windows XP
clients.
We are a newspaper. We use Acrobat Distiller to
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:28:41PM +, Miguel Medalha wrote:
My question is: how is the order of files determined by Linux when a
particular order is not explicitly required by a program?
There is not ordering in POSIX filesystems. If you want
an ordered list you must sort them yourself.
Someone has posted a Samba VFS that will sort directory
output in alphabetical order (but only for the current
locale). You could examine that.
http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg98048.html
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:20:42PM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
Someone has posted a Samba VFS that will sort directory
output in alphabetical order (but only for the current
locale). You could examine that.
http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg98048.html
FYI: This is
