From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:19:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:19:22 -0400 Received: from fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com ([193.131.176.3]:20357 "EHLO fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:19:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:18:18 +0100 From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: directory order of files Message-ID: <20010629101818.A13817@rano.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With Linux ext2, and some other systems, when you create files in a new directory, the file system remembers their order: $ mkdir new $ cd new $ touch one two three four $ ls -U one two three four (1) Is there any standard that says a system should behave this way? Is there any software that depends on this behaviour? (2) Are there Linux file systems that don't work this way? Maybe someone with a mounted writable reiserfs could do a quick check. Please copy replies to me as I am not subscribed. Thanks. Edmund