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Tom Anderson
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