We've just stumbled across an interesting problem in one of our applications that fails when run on a ZFS filesystem.
I don't have the code, so I can't fix it at source, but it's relying on the fact that if you do readdir() on a directory, the files come back in the order they were added to the directory. This appears to be true (within certain limitations) on UFS, but certainly isn't true on ZFS. Is there any way to force readdir() to return files in a specific order? (On UFS, we have a scipt that creates symlinks in the correct order. Ugly, but seems to have worked for many years.) If not, I was looking at interposing my own readdir() (that's assuming the application is using readdir()) that actually returns the entries in the desired order. However, I'm having a bit of trouble hacking this together (the current source doesn't compile in isolation on my S10 machine). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
