On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:06 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Miguel Medalha wrote: > > I hope someone familiar with the way Linux processes files can enlighten > > me on the following: > > ... > > On the Windows server, Distiller processes the files by filename order: > > > > M09010901A001C.ps > > M09010901A002C.ps > > M09010901A003C.ps > > > > Windows NTFS uses B-Tree for its directories so they are inherently > alphabetically sorted. If the linux FS is efs2, maybe the "dir_index" option of mke2fs will doo what you want? See "man mke2fs". It says it uses hashed b-trees, but for speed. > <snip> HTH -- Bill