On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:21:47PM -0700, Zhigang Cui wrote: > Hi Eric, > Thanks for you reply. > > In fact, what I expect is the behavior is consistent for the user. In > other words, if a user repeats the same steps, he wants the same > result. In the given case, The names of 'dir', 'file1' and 'file2' are > fixed, the name of corresponding exported dir is fixed, the order of > the operations is fixed, too.
The order of enumeration is fixed for any given directory, but not necessarily consistent across disparate directories. > Is it determined by the 'salt'? If such result is desired for ZFS, > maybe I need to redesign the test case. :-( Yes, that is correct. Your test case should be verifying that the correct directory entries are there, but it should not be verifying the order in any way. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
