Am 14.08.2012 10:21, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > On 13.08.2012 16:53, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> 2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder <dan...@admin-box.com >> 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should >> have some kind of DB that holds that information. >> 3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should take >> care of removing old files. Sadly, it does not work as it's supposed to >> be, While time passes the number of orphans grow :( > There is also the possibility to write a really small daemon (less than > 50 lines of C) that registers with inotify for the entire fs and > journals the file activity to a sqlite-db. > > A simple sql-query from a cron/bash script will then give you all the > files to delete with paths. > > It will probably be less work to write the daemon than to do 40 > fs-benchmarks - and the result will be the most efficient. >
That is an interesting idea, but I have never used inotify on such a huge file base, I am not sure what impact that has in terms of cpu cycles being used. But I am going to try this on some snowy winter weekend :)
