moving directory tree without system call

[perfectom]

Hello all,
I'm looking for a way to do a "move" on a directory to a new location without the apparently insecure method of using a system call. The problem is, though, that I can't use a combination of copy() and unlink(), because, amongst other reasons, the files being moved would be too big (like, 80 gigs). The Unix "mv" command, however, simply changes the inode without actually moving the data on disk. Is there some way to mimic the behaviour of mv in php without a system call?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

[ednark]

no php-only solution that i know of... however, depending on what you are actually doing you could always use the 'ln' system call

this will create a virtual link, or virtual directory, every time the file systems accesses you link, it will really be bumped somewhere else

so in this sense you have 'copied' a directory to some other location, you just have not deleted it from the original location

read more at you favorite command prompt:
man ln