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docs: mention BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX as alternative to BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL, fixes #5602

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@ -1006,6 +1006,10 @@ will be slow because it would chunk all the files each time. If you set
BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL to at least 26 (or maybe even a small multiple of that),
it would be much faster.
Besides using a higher BORG_FILES_CACHE_TTL (which also increases memory usage),
there is also BORG_FILES_CACHE_SUFFIX which can be used to have separate (smaller)
files caches for each backup set instead of the default one (big) unified files cache.
Another possible reason is that files don't always have the same path, for
example if you mount a filesystem without stable mount points for each backup or if you are running the backup from a filesystem snapshot whose name is not stable.
If the directory where you mount a filesystem is different every time,