I'm thinking in terms of using 'File::Find' to build up a list, but this seems ... well, a bit inefficient to me - traversing a whole directory structure, in order to feed a virus scanner a list that'll... then traverse the file structure again.
But "traversing a whole directory structure" will take a very tiny fraction (much smaller than 1/1,000,000) of the amount of time that "traversing a whole directory structure + scaning each file" will take, so does this inefficiency matter?

If you can efficiently feed a virus scanner 1 file (or better a list of say 1,000 files), you might as well use 'File::Find' to build up a list of all files (even if this takes a few hours), then feed the virus scanner from the list.

If you can only give the virus scanner a path to scan, you could have a folder called 'scan' or somthing, create (hard / symbolic?) links to the next N files (*) in the 'File::Find' list, tell the virus scanner to scan the 'scan' folder, when it's finished remove the links and repeat.
(*) If you wanted each scan to take a simiar-ish time, rather than the next N files, you'd be better adding files until they totalled between a lower MB limit and upper MB limit.

I've got the feeling I must have missed something here...

In reply to Re: Splitting up a filesystem into 'bite sized' chunks by zork42
in thread Splitting up a filesystem into 'bite sized' chunks by Preceptor

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