Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote: > On 2011-01-06 01:35:58 -0800, Rohit Coder said: > >> Is Python suitable to write low-level system utilities like Defrag, >> Malware Removal Tools and Drivers? > > Yes and no. > > Also, file fragmentation is a non-issue on all modern filesystems > (ext3/4, reiser, ntfs, hfs+, etc.) as they perform live-system > defragmentation to varying degrees.
According to microsoft documentation, the recommendation is to run defragmentation on ntfs on a regular bases. There seems to come some improvement on the mft fragmentation, but still it feels long behind the linux/unix file systems. Do you have any recent documentation on ntfs that shows it has the capability to defragmentate itself other than mft? -- //Aho -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
