Subject: Re: [bug#45327] [PATCH] git: Periodically delete least-recently-used cached checkouts.

From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:46:36 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Hi!
>
> I noticed that my ~/.cache/guix/checkouts directory had accumulated
> a lot of cruft from channels, playing with ‘--with-branch’ and such,
> and that it would be nice to clean it up once in a while.
>
> This is what this patch does.  It uses the (guix cache) default
> strategy, which consists in deleting least-recently-used items by
> looking at their atime.
>
> Thoughts?

How does it behave when the cache is on a file system mounted with the
'noatime' option?