fscache: Strategy for keeping disk cache to a limit

[eric]

Do you have any strategies for cleaning up the cache to limit the disk space used?

For our current HTTP cache implementation we have the ability to update mtime on a cache hit to make it easy to find the oldest cached responses and delete them. Would you be open to something like that being an option?

[bartventer]

Not at the moment, but I'd be open to adding an update_mtime=true option to the DSN. That's a clean approach that lets you handle cleanup with standard tools:

find /cache/dir -type f -mtime +7 -delete

I can add this in the next release. Would that work for your use case?

[eric]

Yes, that would work great!

[bartventer]

Yes, that would work great!

Perfect, it's been included in the latest v0.12.0.