Re: Deleting files on temporary network dropouts

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On Friday, January 9, 2026 at 2:58:21=E2=80=AFPM UTC+1 Greg Troxel wrote:


So, find some big direcotry. Write a script to do ls and save it (in=20
a date-stamped file) and do that repeatadly, during some time when you=20
don't touch that directory, and see if they are all the same. Then add=20
some command to clear your davfs2 cache in between.=20


I can't reproduce:

while true;do ls /mnt/davfs/hidrive/public/bigdir/ > dav-debug/ls-$(date=20
--iso-8601=3Dseconds);sleep 1;done
md5sum dav-debug/*

I switched networks locally, switched interfaces off and on, switched VPNs,=
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I also turned off the mobile uplink on the Android hotspot and stuff.
The files are always all identical, or are 0-size when waiting for a=20
network. I'm not sure if some longer waiting would lead to a wrong ls.
But as far as I can see, davfs2 is just blocking without network.

My custom config differing from default:

cat /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf |grep -v "^#" |grep -v "^$"
cache_size      96000               # MiByte
delay_upload    2
minimize_mem    1
table_size      131072              # power of 2
use_compression 1

That means, I use a very huge local cache taking almost the complete webdav=
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server content. Actually for unison that doesn't help much I guess because=
=20
it needs to check the server stats anyway, but if unchanged and I need to=
=20
read a file from server, then I almost have it already cached.

Best regards,
Mo

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<div><div dir=3D"auto">On Friday, January 9, 2026 at 2:58:21=E2=80=AFPM UTC=
+1 Greg Troxel wrote:<br /></div><blockquote style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0=
.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br />=
So, find some big direcotry.    Write a script to do ls and save it (in
<br />a date-stamped file) and do that repeatadly, during some time when yo=
u
<br />don't touch that directory, and see if they are all the same.   Then =
add
<br />some command to clear your davfs2 cache in between.
<br /></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>I can't reproduce:</div><div><br /=
></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: Courier New;">while true;do ls /mnt=
/davfs/hidrive/public/bigdir/ &gt; dav-debug/ls-$(date --iso-8601=3Dseconds=
);sleep 1;done</span></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: Courier New;">m=
d5sum dav-debug/*</span></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: Courier New;=
"><br /></span></div><div><font face=3D"Sans Serif">I switched networks loc=
ally, switched interfaces off and on, switched VPNs, I also turned off the =
mobile uplink on the Android hotspot and stuff.</font></div><div><font face=
=3D"Sans Serif">The files are always all identical, or are 0-size when wait=
ing for a network. I'm not sure if some longer waiting would lead to a wron=
g ls.</font></div><div><font face=3D"Sans Serif">But as far as I can see, d=
avfs2 is just blocking without network.</font></div><div><font face=3D"Sans=
 Serif"><br /></font></div><div><font face=3D"Sans Serif">My custom config =
differing from default:</font></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: Courie=
r New;"><br /></span></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: Courier New;">c=
at /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf |grep -v "^#" |grep -v "^$"<br />cache_size =C2=
=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A096000 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 # M=
iByte<br />delay_upload =C2=A0 =C2=A02<br />minimize_mem =C2=A0 =C2=A01<br =
/>table_size =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0131072 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 =C2=A0# power of 2<br />use_compression 1</span><br /><br /></div><d=
iv>That means, I use a very huge local cache taking almost the complete web=
dav server content. Actually for unison that doesn't help much I guess beca=
use it needs to check the server stats anyway, but if unchanged and I need =
to read a file from server, then I almost have it already cached.</div><div=
><br /></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Mo</div></div>

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