GeoServer provides GeoWebCache REST API that may be used to truncate existing cached tile folders ( http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/geowebcache/rest/seed.html ).
If I have a local access to the tile cache folders, is it ok to handle truncating by simply deleting some of the folders by using my own scripts instead of using REST API. In other words, can bypassing the REST API to clean tile cache have some unwanted side effects? Only potential thing that comes into my mind is GeoWebCache Disk Quota service ( http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/geowebcache/rest/diskquota.html ). For example, is there a possibility that some quota counter becomes out of sync if deletion is not done via REST API?
Best regards,
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Ville Karppinen
ville.karppinen@anonymised.com