Imagine I have a GCS bucket mounted on my local Linux file system. Imagine I have an app that is writing new files into a Linux directory that is mounted to GCS. My goal is to have those locally written files eventually show up in GCS.
I understand that the writes on Linux happen "locally" until the file is closed ... what happens if I lose network connectivity and hence can't write to GCS? Will the local file eventually end up in GCS? Do retries and re-attempts happen?
Based on the repository documentation for gcsfuse, file upload retries are already built into the utility, and they happen when there are problems accessing the storage bucket that is mounted. You are able to modify the maximum backoff for retries by using the --max-retry-sleep flag. This flag controls the maximum time that can be reached between retries, after which retrying stops. The flag accepts an X amount of minutes as input.
This doc page is also relevant if you would like to know more about specific characteristics of gcsfuse.
