pCacheFS provides a simple caching layer for other filesystems, which can make slow, remote filesystems seem very fast to access. The cache does not disappear when you start/stop pCacheFS or reboot - it is persistent.

It is designed for caching large amounts of data on remote filesystems that don't change very much, such as movie/music libraries.

Key features

• you can choose where to store your persistent cache - local harddisk, ramdisk filesystem, etc
• cache contents of any other filesystem, whether local or remote (even other FUSE filesystems such as sshfs)
• pCacheFS caches data as it is read, and only the bits that are read

Currently pCacheFS mounts are read-only - writes are not supported.

See Example or the blog article for usage examples.

Dependencies

pCacheFS requires FUSE and the FUSE Python bindings to be installed on your system.

Ubuntu users should be able to use this command to install:

    $ sudo apt-get install fuse python-fuse