Nexus OOS - Clean up the proxy/attributes/

I got a Nexus OOS instance with the following settings:

• proxy of the http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
• I override the "local storage location" with a path to a network device

Everything is ok and my Nexus instance works fine... but I notice the number of inodes grows a lot. After a little check, I can tell every inodes come from the proxy/attributes/ directory. According to the documentation:

Stores data about the files contained in a remote repository. Each proxy repository has a subdirectory in the proxy/attributes/ directory and every file that Nexus has interacted with in the remote repository has an XML file which captures such data as the: last requested timestamp, the remote URL for a particular file, the length of the file, and the digests for a particular file among other things. If you need to backup the local cached contents of a proxy repository, you should also back up the contents of the proxy repository's directory under proxy/attributes/.

Ok I understand why there is a lot of little files in this location but I have a dummy question: to avoid to reach my inode limit, could I periodically clean up the content of proxy/attributes/, without breaking anything and does开发者_运维百科 these files will be recreated 'on demand' if needed?

I find nothing about it...

Any clue will be greatly appreciated!

You can find details on the contents of the working folder here: https://docs.sonatype.com/display/SPRTNXOSS/Nexus+Workspace+Directories+Analysis

The part you're specifically interested in is this:

/Proxy: This folder contains an "attributes" subfolder, that holds as many subfolders as many repos you have (repoId is the name of these). This is the place where "item attributes" are persisted as lots of very small files. These files contain information about expiration status and are consulted during proxying. Therefore, they have impact on proxy and group lookup speed if stored on a slow disk. These files are recreated on demand if they are missing or corrupted and thus don't need to be backed up.

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