neil reswgfwgmailcom 21408 per jessen wrote neil wrote want use softraid1 array swapping called redundancy know raid 1 may usefull data swapspace meant temporarily shouldnt matter wether gone hdd crashes oh matter think happens process thats swapped suddenly needs run kernel try swap back harddisk dead im sure linux much paging page fault resolved paging cause trouble guarantee okay stand corrected would certainly cause load trouble mailed ontopic mailing list cause think belongs neil two kinds people 1 people start arrays 1 1 people start arrays 0 jcgcstdsrnradiocom sun feb 24 103010 2008 messageid 47b1b25c1070703srnradiocom date tue 12 feb 2008 085108 0600 michael barnes mimeversion 10 cc perl beginners subject lstat uses contenttype textplain charsetutf8 contenttransferencoding 7bit john w krahn told 02112008 0347 pm michael barnes wrote thought using lstat get size file file comparisons see lstat always returns list thirteen values references find appear require assignment 13 values variables even though want use one really put devinomodenlinkuidgidrdevsize atimemtimectimeblksizeblocks lstatfilename get size variable populated file size ultimate goal check size huge files copied folder get size come back three times row indicating file move playing file could use file test operator size filename uses stat instead lstat really need lstat could like lstat filename size _ john wonderful wild variety answers thank much matters whether use stat lstat folder used dropbox environment perl script examines folder presence file takes appropriate action moving needs removing dropbox folder problem occurs user places large 300mb file dropbox folder script processes file may yet script loops back around sees file still attempts process still processed first iteration desire get file size wait get file size compare thought file returned size three times row could assumed file completely copied dropbox folder could processed im trying keep basic yet functional possible thanks various inputs keep coming educational michael wed 06 aug 2008 012549 0100 opensuseofftopic opensuse swap partition raid active