[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

[Mark Hammond]

On 11/03/2009 1:55 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Christian Heimes<lists at cheimes.de>  wrote:
>> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> Christian Heimes<lists<at>  cheimes.de>  writes:
...
> Let's not think too Unix-specific. If we add such an API it should do
> something on Windows too -- the app shouldn't have to test for the
> presence of the API. (And thus the API probably shouldn't be called
> fsync.)

This is especially true given Windows has recently introduced a 
transactional API for NTFS.  Although the tone is - err - gushing - it 
(a) should give some information on what is available, and (b) was high 
on my google search list <wink>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163388.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363764(VS.85).aspx

Cheers,

Mark