How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

[Roy Smith]

In article <8olv6kFb8hU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 "J.O. Aho" <user at example.net> wrote:

> 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.

I think you missed the point :-)