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
