I have a question regarding with how tar orders files. I work with sequences of files and sometimes the files are not written in tar in the same order of their inodes. For example:
12:08pm<steveko.iol02.164>ls -li reel_01/ total 250880 43754232 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000001.dpx 43754233 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000002.dpx 43754234 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000003.dpx 43754235 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000004.dpx 43754236 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000005.dpx 43754237 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000006.dpx 43754238 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000007.dpx 43754239 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:01 test-movie_R1.000008.dpx 43754240 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000009.dpx 43754241 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000010.dpx 43754242 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000011.dpx 43754243 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000012.dpx 43754244 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000013.dpx 43754245 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000014.dpx 43754246 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000015.dpx 43754247 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000016.dpx 43754248 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000017.dpx 43754249 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000018.dpx 43754250 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000019.dpx 43754251 -rwxrwxrwx 1 steveko dmdcw 12763136 Jun 27 10:02 test-movie_R1.000020.dpx 12:08pm<steveko.iol02.165> But when I tar: 12:08pm<steveko.iol02.165>tar -cvf a.tar reel_01/ reel_01/ reel_01/test-movie_R1.000008.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000009.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000001.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000002.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000003.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000004.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000005.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000006.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000007.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000018.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000019.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000010.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000011.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000012.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000013.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000014.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000015.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000016.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000017.dpx reel_01/test-movie_R1.000020.dpx 12:08pm<steveko.iol02.166> Why do the files 8 and 9 come before the rest of the files? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/tar-ordering-of-files-tf3996199.html#a11349124 Sent from the Gnu - Tar - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ help-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-tar
