How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

Thu Jan 6 06:52:38 EST 2011

Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote:
> On 2011年01月06日 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?
-- 
 //Aho