File-UStore version 0.04
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File-UStore  is a perl  library to  store files  on a
filesystem using a UUID based storage around various depths of Storage.

File::UStore is a library that allows users to abstract file storage using a UUID based pointer instead of File Hashes to store the file.  This is
a critical feature for code which requires even duplicate files to get a unique identifier each time they added to a store. A Hash Storage on the
other hand will not allow a file to be duplicated if it is stored multiple time in the store. This can cause issues in cases where a files may be
deleted regularly as there would be no way of knowing if a second process is still using the file which the first process might be about to delete.

The  current version  uses UUID Module to generate universally unique identifiers everytime a file is to be stored.

The Module also provides a option to choose the folder depth at which a file is stored.  This can be changed from the default value of 3.
Increasing depth is advisable if the Store might contain a large number of files in your use case. This helps avoid having an excessive number of
files in any single folder.
 
INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires the following modules :

  UUID
  File::Spec
  File::Copy
  File::Path
  Test::More

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc File::UStore

You can also look for information at:

    RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=File-UStore

    AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
        http://annocpan.org/dist/File-UStore

    CPAN Ratings
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/File-UStore

    Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-UStore/


LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 Shantanu Bhadoria

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.