Timeline for Splitting a small file into 512 byte segments changes it, but splitting it in 1k segments doesn't
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| Nov 5, 2021 at 20:00 | history | edited | dhag | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Turn "determined" into "deterministic" which I think is more thorough |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 12:44 | history | edited | ilkkachu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 200 characters in body |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 11:24 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | About It's the same order as the underlying system call gives. That's not necessarily true. Some are known to sort the list of files by inode for instance as an optimisation (to minimise the number of HDD head seeks or take advantage of prefetching and caching of the inode table). (in any case, it will still appear as random) | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 20:08 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @FlashDaggerX, well, that's part of the SE problem. If you think it's easier to find for any future readers with another phrasing, and care to edit, then go ahead. But it describes the behaviour you saw, and that's ok too. | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 19:59 | history | edited | ilkkachu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 377 characters in body |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 19:56 | vote | accept | FlashDaggerX | ||
| Nov 4, 2021 at 19:56 | comment | added | FlashDaggerX | Your suggestion works... I did need to sort the output of find. Should I change the title of the post? | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 19:50 | history | edited | ilkkachu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 377 characters in body |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 19:43 | history | answered | ilkkachu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |