sourcachefs is a persistent, read-only, FUSE-based caching file system. The goal of sourcachefs is to provide a caching layer over immutable slow file systems, possibly networked ones such as SSHFS.

sourcachefs was initially designed to cache source files exposed via a slow networked file system, where this file system maintains immutable views of each commit from a version control system. In this scheme, each commit is a separate directory and can be cached indefinitely because the contents are assumed to not change.

sourcachefs should support offline operation: once the contents of the remote file system have been cached, operations on those same files and directories should continue to work locally.

This is not an official Google product.

Run:

./configure && make

This command will download all required Go dependencies into a temporary directory, apply necessary patches to them, and build sourcachefs. (This is a bit of a non-standard Go workflow for your sanity, but if you don't care about fetching dependencies correctly, you can still use go get and go build as usual.)

The results of the build will be left as the self-contained binary bin/sourcachefs. You can copy it anywhere you want it to live.

The basic usage is:

sourcachefs <target_dir> <cache_dir> <mount_point>

where target_dir is the (slow) file system to be reexposed at mount_point and cache_dir is the directory that will hold the persistent cached contents.

The following non-standard flags are recognized:

• --cached_path_regex=string: Specifies a regular expression to match relative paths within the mount point. If there is a match, the file is cached by sourcachefs; if there is not, accesses go directly to the target directory.

• --listen_address=string: Enables an HTTP server on the given address for pprof support and for statistics tracking. Statistics are useful to see how much the cache is helping, if at all, to avoid falling through the remote file system.

Want to contribute? Great! But please first read the guidelines provided in CONTRIBUTING.

If you are curious about who made this project possible, you can check out the list of copyright holders and the list of individuals.