Posted Sep 20, 2012 21:54 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Throwing one away by Cyberax
Parent article: Throwing one away
what happens if the filesystem doesn't store the files in a nice simple list, but instead stores them in some sort of tree format, and the tree can be re-ordered significantly between one call and the next.
For simple filesystems you get simple answers. for complex filesystems things get really messy.