bugdavfs2 - Bugs: bug #63546, Cache dir bloating

 
 

bug #63546: Cache dir bloating

Submitter:  Nikolay Shaplov <nataraj>
Submitted:  Sun 18 Dec 2022 09:48:23 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  alix82
Open/Closed:  Open
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Wed 20 Nov 2024 02:34:16 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I will see how this can be solved without introducing issues. I think the best solution is to delete outdated files.

BTW: the project has been migrated to github [1]

Please open an issue on github

[1] https://github.com/alisarctl/davfs2

 Ali Abdallah <alix82>
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Fri 28 Apr 2023 02:58:03 PM UTC, comment #1: 

using tmp is a bad decission, as requesting the files takes "long" depending on the file size, or the number of files.
But outdated files should be deleted from the cache.

 Anonymous
Sun 18 Dec 2022 09:48:23 PM UTC, original submission:  

I've using davfs2 for couple of years, and was surprised to find out that my /var/cache/davfs2 dir have bloated to 8 Gb.

It seems that if davfs2 terminates unexpectedly (reboot or kill or powerdown) it will never clean cache that have been used.

This should be fixed, I guess.

I have several possible solution to suggest:

- Use /tmp for caching. Then it will be automatically cleaned on reboot (guess it is best solution)

- keep pid in cache data, if davfs2 is started, finds cache for pid N, and there is no such process up and running, clear that cache. (A bit dangerous to my taste)

- clear cache that is old. Older that N days, or may be older then uptime...

May be use some combination of it, or find some other solution...

 Nikolay Shaplov <nataraj>

 

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