All,
I am working on a
program that will be copying a mass amount of data (files and subdirectories)
from one location ( a NAS or external SCSI disk) to a local file system
locatioin on a local SCSI disk. This is basically the first step to the
installation of a large piece of software. The amount of data ranges from 5G -
9G. Currently the perl program moves the data from point a to point b using the
file system's copy command. (in this case it is UNIX and the command is
'cp').
My question is ....
is there any way to make a large tree copy like this any faster such as copying
data at the inode level? I am not too familiar with this level of operation or
if there are Perl modules that operate at this level.
The goal here is to
move 5 - 9 Gigabytes of data from one location to another in the same
organizational structure (directories, subdirectories, files,
etc.)
John
