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.
