On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:36:34PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:48:24PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Err, no. If the htree (hash tree) indexing feature is turned on for > > ext2 or ext3 filesystems, they will returned sorted by the hash of the > > filename --- effectively a random order. (Since the hash also > > includes a secret, random, per-filesystem secret in order to avoid > > denial of service attacks by malicious users who might otherwise try > > to create huge numbers of files containing hash collisions.) > > I can only presume this is new or obscure, since everything I tried > had the traditional behaviour. Can't see how to turn it on, either.
I believe htree == dir_index, so tune2fs(8) and mke2fs(8) have the answer. -- - mdz