On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: > >> This sounds to me like the dir_index option was applied to a file system >> that didn't originally have it and an fsck -Df wasn't run at the time. > > That may well be the most relevant information given here! I will *certainly* > give it a try. I based my speculation on some observations I had made on some of my own systems when I implemented dir_index. It so happens that, on that system at least, a "find /foo -print" returns the filenames in sorted order. Unfortunately, it isn't true on another system that I just checked. So now I will go and stand in the corner :( Steve