> With Linux ext2, and some other systems, when you create files in a
> new directory, the file system remembers their order:

No - it merely seems too. 

> $ touch one two three four
> $ ls -U
> one  two  three  four

Then try 'rm three; touch five'

> 
> (1) Is there any standard that says a system should behave this way?
> Is there any software that depends on this behaviour?

The order is arbitary. 

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