On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:39:32PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > Not sure what you're getting at here, but POSIX makes absolutely no > guarantee that d_off will always increase in value as an application > walks the directory. That's an impossible thing to guarantee given > the way d_off values are chosen (at entry creation time, not at > directory iteration time). Not sure why you're trying to cite POSIX when it's an actual application regression under discussion. Sane d_offset behaviour is one of those "of _course_ things will break you screw that up and I don't want to be on the hook for debugging it" things to filesystem developers - you don't do it.