Evolution of cache volumes | Dagger | Page 1

stuck mirage Sep 16, 2025, 7:23 PM

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The other day I was developing a module for a real-world use case (exporting data from our discord server), and struggled with cache volumes

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I needed something like cache volumes, but struggled to use them in a useful way because their lifecycle is so different

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I wonder if we could decouple the features of a cache volume, to get some parts without the others?

stuck mirage Sep 17, 2025, 6:41 AM

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Specifically could we have a directory with regular mounting behavior, incorporated in the layers with digest etc, but with persistent changes somehow?

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maybe an evolution of the new env lifecycle @drowsy juniper ?

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my use case was reusing a download directory across several discord data exports

frozen dawn Sep 17, 2025, 10:33 AM

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when i proposed live directories, that was my idea of what that could become

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but we decided not to go that route as i remember

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