Re: strange file.write() behavior on windows: $ConvertToNonresident, $ReplaceAttribute2

2005-11-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while taking some rough disk performance measures on windows machines, > and snooping with FileMon, i've noticed some odd behavior > sometimes, depending on the phase of the moon, instead of > $ReplaceAttribute2 the write goes to $ConvertToNonresident. within

Re: strange file.write() behavior on windows: $ConvertToNonresident, $ReplaceAttribute2

2005-11-16 Thread jepler
This is really just a snide joke at the expense of Microsoft, but have you checked the MSDN documentation about ConvertToNonresident or ReplaceAttribute2? Your search - site:msdn.microsoft.com ConvertToNonresident OR ReplaceAttribute2 - did not match any documents. -- google.com

strange file.write() behavior on windows: $ConvertToNonresident, $ReplaceAttribute2

2005-11-16 Thread welch
while taking some rough disk performance measures on windows machines, and snooping with FileMon, i've noticed some odd behavior here's the little nul-writer i'm running: def writeTest(nBlocks, blockSize): """write nBlocks*blockSize nuls to a file""" f = open("writeTest.out", "wb") nulBloc