[Help-tar] tar ordering of files

[dmdc]

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?  
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