utz lehmann <lkml123@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How does this works right with noatime or relatime (which is default)? Don't do that then. > We had used FS-Cache with a few 10000s files cached. Doesn't it mean > that the cleanup has to stat them all? Yes. > Why didn't cachefilesd managed the cache index in a separate database > like other caches? Because using atime is much simpler since the filesystem updates it automatically. If you have a separate database then you have redundant information and you need to maintain metadata integrity which has a cost, both in terms of disk usage and performance. I'm working on it, but you don't get it for free. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
