On 2015-04-25 16:20:21 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > the situation becomes much worse if you generate the filenames > > from a random sequence.
The filenames don't matter. > > Try to replace the command "seq" by "jot" from the package athena-jot like > > > > for i in $(jot 5000 1 5000) > > > for i in $(jot -r 5000 1 5000) > > > That makes the numerical order of the files have a random i-node > > number sequence . Why? The i-nodes are generated by the filesystem implementation, and in practice, they are assigned in increasing order. AFAIK, the end user can't control that. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
