Russell Warren wrote:
> One last non-python question... a few things I read seemed to vaguely
> indicate that the journaling feature of NTFS is an extension/option.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/winpreinst/ntfs-preinstall.mspx
NTFS is a journaling file system. NTFS writes a log of chan
Thanks, guys... this has all been very useful information.
The machine this is happening on is already running NTFS.
The good news is that we just discovered/remembered that there is a
write-caching option (in device manager -> HDD -> properties ->
Policies tab) available in XP. The note right b
Russell Warren schrieb:
> Any insight from someone with knowledge of the internal operations of
> os.remove and/or os.rename would be greatly appreciated, although I
> expect the crux may be at the os level and not in python.
Just to confirm what others have said: Python has nothing to do with
tha
Russell Warren wrote:
> I've got a case where I'm seeing text files that are either all null
> characters, or are trailed with nulls due to interrupted file access
> resulting from an electrical power interruption on the WinXP pc.
>
> In tracking it down, it seems that what is being interrupted is
Russell Warren enlightened us with:
> On first pass I would think that both of those calls are single step
> operations (removing/changing an entry in the FAT, or FAT-like
> thing, on the HDD) and wouldn't result in an intermediate,
> null-populated, step, but the evidence seems to indicate I'm
> w
I've got a case where I'm seeing text files that are either all null
characters, or are trailed with nulls due to interrupted file access
resulting from an electrical power interruption on the WinXP pc.
In tracking it down, it seems that what is being interrupted is either
os.remove(), or os.renam
