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@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the
backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or
invalidate the cache.
```text
--dir-cache-time duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
--poll-interval duration Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable (default 1m0s)
```
However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web
interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once
@@ -32,16 +34,22 @@ You can send a `SIGHUP` signal to rclone for it to flush all
directory caches, regardless of how old they are. Assuming only one
rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```sh
kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)
```
If you configure rclone with a [remote control](/rc) then you can use
rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:
rclone rc vfs/forget
```sh
rclone rc vfs/forget
```
Or individual files or directories:
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```sh
rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir
```
### VFS File Buffering
@@ -72,6 +80,7 @@ write simultaneously to a file. See below for more details.
Note that the VFS cache is separate from the cache backend and you may
find that you need one or the other or both.
```text
--cache-dir string Directory rclone will use for caching.
--vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
--vfs-cache-max-age duration Max time since last access of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
@@ -79,6 +88,7 @@ find that you need one or the other or both.
--vfs-cache-min-free-space SizeSuffix Target minimum free space on the disk containing the cache (default off)
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
--vfs-write-back duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
```
If run with `-vv` rclone will print the location of the file cache. The
files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but
@@ -126,13 +136,13 @@ directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.
This will mean some operations are not possible
* Files can't be opened for both read AND write
* Files opened for write can't be seeked
* Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
* Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
* Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
* Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
* If an upload fails it can't be retried
- Files can't be opened for both read AND write
- Files opened for write can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
- Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
- Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
- If an upload fails it can't be retried
#### --vfs-cache-mode minimal
@@ -142,10 +152,10 @@ write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.
These operations are not possible
* Files opened for write only can't be seeked
* Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
* Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
* If an upload fails it can't be retried
- Files opened for write only can't be seeked
- Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
- Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
- If an upload fails it can't be retried
#### --vfs-cache-mode writes
@@ -228,9 +238,11 @@ read, at the cost of an increased number of requests.
These flags control the chunking:
```text
--vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks (default 128M)
--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix Max chunk doubling size (default off)
--vfs-read-chunk-streams int The number of parallel streams to read at once
```
The chunking behaves differently depending on the `--vfs-read-chunk-streams` parameter.
@@ -244,9 +256,9 @@ value is "off", which is the default, the limit is disabled and the chunk size
will grow indefinitely.
With `--vfs-read-chunk-size 100M` and `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0`
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M and so on.
When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would be
0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.
the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M
and so on. When `--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M` is specified, the result would
be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.
Setting `--vfs-read-chunk-size` to `0` or "off" disables chunked reading.
@@ -284,32 +296,41 @@ In particular S3 and Swift benefit hugely from the `--no-modtime` flag
(or use `--use-server-modtime` for a slightly different effect) as each
read of the modification time takes a transaction.
```text
--no-checksum Don't compare checksums on up/download.
--no-modtime Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
--no-seek Don't allow seeking in files.
--read-only Only allow read-only access.
```
Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather
than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or
write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an
on disk cache file.
```text
--vfs-read-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
--vfs-write-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
```
When using VFS write caching (`--vfs-cache-mode` with value writes or full),
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of
modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no effect on the VFS).
the global flag `--transfers` can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads
of modified files from the cache (the related global flag `--checkers` has no
effect on the VFS).
```text
--transfers int Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)
```
### Symlinks
By default the VFS does not support symlinks. However this may be
enabled with either of the following flags:
```text
--links Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.
--vfs-links Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension for the VFS
```
As most cloud storage systems do not support symlinks directly, rclone
stores the symlink as a normal file with a special extension. So a
@@ -321,7 +342,8 @@ Note that `--links` enables symlink translation globally in rclone -
this includes any backend which supports the concept (for example the
local backend). `--vfs-links` just enables it for the VFS layer.
This scheme is compatible with that used by the [local backend with the --local-links flag](/local/#symlinks-junction-points).
This scheme is compatible with that used by the
[local backend with the --local-links flag](/local/#symlinks-junction-points).
The `--vfs-links` flag has been designed for `rclone mount`, `rclone
nfsmount` and `rclone serve nfs`.
@@ -331,7 +353,7 @@ It hasn't been tested with the other `rclone serve` commands yet.
A limitation of the current implementation is that it expects the
caller to resolve sub-symlinks. For example given this directory tree
```
```text
.
├── dir
│   └── file.txt
@@ -409,7 +431,9 @@ sync`.
This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system.
It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.
```text
--vfs-disk-space-total-size Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)
```
### Alternate report of used bytes
@@ -420,7 +444,7 @@ With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this
information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to `rclone size`
and compute the total used space itself.
_WARNING._ Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
**WARNING**: Contrary to `rclone size`, this flag ignores filters so that the
result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API
calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.
@@ -438,7 +462,7 @@ Note that some backends won't create metadata unless you pass in the
For example, using `rclone mount` with `--metadata --vfs-metadata-extension .metadata`
we get
```
```sh
$ ls -l /mnt/
total 1048577
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1073741824 Mar 3 16:03 1G
@@ -462,4 +486,3 @@ total 1048578
If the file has no metadata it will be returned as `{}` and if there
is an error reading the metadata the error will be returned as
`{"error":"error string"}`.