How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

J.O. Aho user at example.net
Thu Jan 6 08:42:44 EST 2011


Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <8oloo6F566U1 at mid.individual.net>,
>  "J.O. Aho" <user at example.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> This is the best defragmenter for a windows file system is this:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu,com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

It depends on your taste, I favour to be able to customize quite a lot of my
installation and those rather use a meta-distribution.

As SourceMage ( www.sourcemage.org ) or Gentoo ( www.gentoo.org ).

But your reply don't point at a ms-documentation about auto defragmentation of
a file system.

-- 

  //Aho



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