Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 15:29, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt> wrote: > I am now almost certain that dir_index will solve the problem. I already > remotely did fsck -fD to that filesystem. I don't really think so... I believe dir_index is the default, your filesystem was probably already created with the dir_index option, and yet your files are out of order. Looking at the man page, it's sorted by the hash of the filename. The purpose is not to present you the files in order, but to make it quicker to open a file in a directory with a huge number of files. > Now I will have to wait for monday to do the Distiller stuff. You don't necessarily have to wait to see what the Distiller would do. "ls -U" shows the files unsorted, in the directory order, that is probably the order in which the Distiller is using them. HTH, Filipe