From 8d12519f3d98d280877e9988c3cd2b2b0007191b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:48:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mount: note that bucket based remotes can use directory markers --- cmd/mountlib/mount.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/cmd/mountlib/mount.md b/cmd/mountlib/mount.md index 2143751a0..d94567bd8 100644 --- a/cmd/mountlib/mount.md +++ b/cmd/mountlib/mount.md @@ -316,10 +316,10 @@ See the [VFS File Caching](#vfs-file-caching) section for more info. When using NFS mount on macOS, if you don't specify |--vfs-cache-mode| the mount point will be read-only. -The bucket-based remotes (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2) -do not support the concept of empty directories, so empty -directories will have a tendency to disappear once they fall out of -the directory cache. +Bucket-based remotes - Azure Blob, Swift, S3, Google Cloud Storage and B2 - +can't store empty directories. Of these, only Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage +and S3 can preserve them when you add `--xxx-directory_markers`; otherwise, +empty directories will vanish once they drop out of the directory cache. When `rclone mount` is invoked on Unix with `--daemon` flag, the main rclone program will wait for the background mount to become ready or until the timeout