cachefilesd(8)

💖 cachefilesd(8) — bestie edition 💖

System Manager's Manual · cachefilesd · ok so sit down, we're doing kernel cache management and it's gonna slay ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cachefilesd — the CacheFiles userspace management daemon, aka the girlboss who runs your local disk cache 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-N] [-f <configfile>]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the cachefilesd daemon? She manages the cache data store 💅 That's the thing network filesystems like AFS and NFS use to cache data locally on disk. Like, instead of going all the way back over the network every single time, they keep a little local copy, and cachefilesd is the one running the whole operation. Main character energy, fr fr.

⚠️ Okay but real talk: you should read the README file before you even attempt to configure this facility. No skipping. I'm serious. 🫶

That README lives at:

/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d — Turn on debugging mode. The messages get written to stderr. You can stack this one (see the [-d]* in the synopsis — yes bestie, asterisk means repeatable) so go off, add more -ds if you want more noise. 🔊
• -s — Don't use syslog. Just… don't. 🌙
• -n — Don't daemonise. She stays in the foreground with you. No cap. 👀
• -N — Disable culling and scanning to fill the cull table. 🚫
• -p <pidfile> — Use an alternate PID file instead of /var/run/cachefilesd.pid. So like, pick your own home for the pidfile, I guess? 🏠
• -f <configfile> — Read the alternate configuration files. Plural. As in the files. Read them. 📖

🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/cachefilesd.conf — the config file, the moment, the blueprint 💜

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• cachefilesd.conf(5)
• /usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README

👑 AUTHORS 👑

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> — thank you for your service, icon 🫡

ok that's the whole page, mwah 💋

with love, from the System Manager's Manual crew — version date 14 November 2006, and yeah, this is cachefilesd(8), that's the whole vibe 🌸✨