perl 5.32.1 on linux

If I do a system call that runs a command in the background, will that background process persist after the perl script ends ? E.g.

system(“rm -rf /disk/rm_this_big_dir >& /dev/null &”);

Removing “/disk/rm_this_big_dir” needs to keep running, even after the perl script that ran the system call finishes. (That’s what the training ‘&’ is supposed to do.)