Best practice vfs mount options for nextcloud webdav mount?

[rclone2 (Paul)]

Hello rclone forum,

i am looking for help to understand vfs options and which one fit my use-case the best. I want to try mounting my nextcloud webdav remote and use it for photography projects (e.g. Darktable). The files for these projects are rather large ( 100mb/image ) and i try to figure out which vfs options are best to provide a reliable and efficent service? my network connection is rather fast but i would prefer an option that works with slower connections as well, if that is possible? I would also like to know how to specify which files are cached locally and which files remain on the remote?

I suppose rclone mount provides all the options that i should need, but i am rather overwhelmed and would feel much more comfortable with someones expertise on that matter.

thanks for reading all of this and happy new year!

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hi, i have a short summary of the rclone vfs caches

[rclone2 (Paul)]

@asdffdsa

to be clear, there are two caches.

each cache has:
a. different purpose
b. different data
c. different storage
d. different levels of volatility

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1. dir-cache
   a. to speed the listing of folder/file names from slow cloud based storage.
   b. a list of folder/file names.
   c. stored in memory.
   d. does not survive a reboot.
2. vfs-cache
   a. to store the contents of files read from slow cloud storage. suffice explanation for now.
   b. the contents of files.
   c. stored in local storage, in your case e:/cache.
   d. does survive a reboot.

	VFS cache	Dir cache
Purpose	[ keep data temporarily on premise ]	[ keep metadata temporarily on premise ]
Data type	data	metadata
Storage type	stored on filesystem	stored in RAM
Volatility	Default 1h, can be non-volatile	volatile

I tried to make sense of your comment but it was only partially helpful. I going to think more about my problem and im going to report back once i found a valid solution.