On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Claudio Grondi wrote: > It is maybe not a pure Python question, but I think it is the right > newsgroup to ask for help, anyway.
You might try comp.arch.storage or comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, or a newsgroup specific to the operating system you're working on. > After connecting a drive to the system (via USB or IDE) I would like to > be able to see within seconds if there were changes in the file system > of that drive since last check (250 GB drive with about four million > files on it). > > How to accomplish this? I don't think there's a portable way to do this. I also don't think there's a way to do this at all on most disks. I think there might be a way to do this using journalled filesystems, but i'm not certain, it would definitely involve fiddling with low-level filesystem APIs (or even on-disk structures), and, UIVMM, these are a minority of disks anyway. Sorry i couldn't be more helpful! tom -- The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be live. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list