Is cfs-init actually required on every run?

Question

Now I've upgraded a customer site, I'm finding it's taking 5+ minutes to bring a site up as it's getting stuck on the cfs-init container every time. The CFS is only 2GB locally as it doesn't contain all the images/attachments etc. but given the production CFS is 130GB, I can see this is going to take much longer every time it starts up. Can this safely be removed as a routine dependency for web/job and only run after upgrades etc? It's not going to be great waiting 5 mins or possibly much much longer. depending on what it's like with the full data.

Michael Monteleone · Answer

Yes, you can remove it. That said, I&rsquo;m a little surprised by how long it&rsquo;s taking. That particular container should be nearly instantaneous. What does your environment look like? Any chance you&rsquo;re running Docker via WSL on Windows with a host-mapped Windows mount for CFS? WSL-to-NTFS file traversal is famously slow.