On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:13:19 +0000 (GMT) John Pote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#> Is there some way from my Python script to know when the data is actually on #> the disk. BTW server OS is Linux. Presumably calling flush() and close() on #> the output file will initiate the disk write, but do they wait for the #> actual disk write or immediately return leaving the OS to do the write when #> it sees fit? You may want to look into sqlite -- it is a single-file based SQL database which is known to be extremely robust in face of problems you describe. One of its design goals was to provide a replacement for file storage. There is python binding http://pysqlite.org which is, IIRC, supposed to be in stdlib for Python 2.5 That said, if your disk and/or OS is lying about the fact whether it has actually wrote the data or not, there is not much you can do. -- Best wishes, Slawomir Nowaczyk ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) If vegetarians love animals so much, why do they eat all their food??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
