The fastest version w/o overoptimizing the code I've got with the following code:
class CTError(Exception):
def __init__(self, errors):
self.errors = errors
try:
O_BINARY = os.O_BINARY
except:
O_BINARY = 0
READ_FLAGS = os.O_RDONLY | O_BINARY
WRITE_FLAGS = os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_TRUNC | O_BINARY
BUFFER_SIZE = 128*1024
def copyfile(src, dst):
try:
fin = os.open(src, READ_FLAGS)
stat = os.fstat(fin)
fout = os.open(dst, WRITE_FLAGS, stat.st_mode)
for x in iter(lambda: os.read(fin, BUFFER_SIZE), ""):
os.write(fout, x)
finally:
try: os.close(fin)
except: pass
try: os.close(fout)
except: pass
def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=[]):
names = os.listdir(src)
if not os.path.exists(dst):
os.makedirs(dst)
errors = []
for name in names:
if name in ignore:
continue
srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
try:
if symlinks and os.path.islink(srcname):
linkto = os.readlink(srcname)
os.symlink(linkto, dstname)
elif os.path.isdir(srcname):
copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
else:
copyfile(srcname, dstname)
# XXX What about devices, sockets etc.?
except (IOError, os.error), why:
errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why)))
except CTError, err:
errors.extend(err.errors)
if errors:
raise CTError(errors)
This code runs a little bit slower than native linux "cp -rf".
Comparing to shutil the gain for the local storage to tmfps is around 2x-3x and around than 6x for NFS to local storage.
After profiling I've noticed that shutil.copy does lots of fstat syscals which are pretty heavyweight.
If one want to optimize further I would suggest to do a single fstat for src and reuse the values. Honestly I didn't go further as I got almost the same figures as native linux copy tool and optimizing for several hundrends of milliseconds wasn't my goal.
