rclone2
(Paul)
January 6, 2026, 8:20am
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to be clear, there are two caches.
each cache has:
a. different purpose
b. different data
c. different storage
d. different levels of volatility
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.
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.