It is maybe not a pure Python question, but I think it is the right newsgroup to ask for help, anyway.
After connecting a drive to the system (via USB or IDE) I would like to be able to see within seconds if there were changes in the file system of that drive since last check (250 GB drive with about four million files on it). How to accomplish this? (best if providing directly a Python receipe for it :-) Do available file systems have something like archive attribute assigned to the root directory of the drive? I suppose not. Am I right? I ask this question having Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows proprietary NTFS file system in mind, but I am also interested to know it about Linux or Unix file systems. I know, that looking for the archive attribute of the top directories doesn't help when the change happened to files somewhere deeper in the hierarchy of directories. Any hints are welcome. Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
