Hey corca-ai,
This tool works pretty well when CI runs with large node modules.
But we noticed a possible improvement on automatically clean — in some cases the cache folder atime doesn’t get updated. so the cache will be deleted in 7 days, even we have testing access the modules.
So one quick fix could be to simply touch the symlink when restoring the cache, so the atime gets refreshed.
bellow is how I test it:
create 1 folder and 1 softlink
lrwxr-xr-x 1 lchang staff 8 Aug 13 22:29 sl_testlink -> testlink
drwxr-xr-x 3 lchang staff 96 Aug 13 22:39 testlink
and here is the atime:
.//testlink | atime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39 | mtime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39 | ctime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39
read or modify the files inside this folder doesn't update the atime:
$ echo 123 > testlink/test.txt
.//testlink | atime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39 | mtime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39 | ctime: 2025-08-13 22:39:39
if touch the path the atime will be updated immediately
$ touch sl_testlink
.//testlink | atime: 2025-08-13 22:44:59 | mtime: 2025-08-13 22:44:59 | ctime: 2025-08-13 22:44:59
So how about add a simply touch on the symlink when restoring the cache?
Hey corca-ai,
This tool works pretty well when CI runs with large node modules.
But we noticed a possible improvement on
automatically clean— in some cases the cache folder atime doesn’t get updated. so the cache will be deleted in 7 days, even we have testing access the modules.So one quick fix could be to simply touch the symlink when restoring the cache, so the atime gets refreshed.
bellow is how I test it:
create 1 folder and 1 softlink
and here is the atime:
read or modify the files inside this folder doesn't update the atime:
if touch the path the atime will be updated immediately
So how about add a simply touch on the symlink when restoring the cache?