How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

[J.O. Aho]

Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote:
> On 2011-01-06 01:35:58 -0800, Rohit Coder said:
> 
>> Is Python suitable to write low-level system utilities like Defrag,
>> Malware Removal Tools and Drivers?
> 
> Yes and no.
>
> Also, file fragmentation is a non-issue on all modern filesystems
> (ext3/4, reiser, ntfs, hfs+, etc.) as they perform live-system
> defragmentation to varying degrees.

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?



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  //Aho