Can two rclone remotes share vfs cache?

[Edrock200 (Ed)]

With the latest rclone, can two rclone remotes share the same VFS cache (assuming the remotes are named the same and pointing to the same cache dir?)

E.g. if I have 3 ssh mounts pointing to the same destination, but mounted with 3 different accounts, each with its own download limits. Each account has some exclusive permissions to dest folders but all three have access to some common folders.

If I made 3 rclone conf files and named all 3 remotes ssh:, then mounted all 3 with --cache-dir=/mnt/cache,
would this allow the VFS cache to be merged/shared or will this cause an issue? Again, the dest objects are identical for all 3, so there wouldn't be a situation where dest:fileA.txt is different between any remote.

Thanks in advance,
Ed

[Animosity022]

No, there is no method to share the cache and is not recommended.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@Edrock200

If I made 3 rclone conf files and named all 3 remotes ssh:, then mounted all 3 with --cache-dir=/mnt/cache,
would this allow the VFS cache to be merged/shared or will this cause an issue? Again, the dest objects are identical for all 3, so there wouldn't be a situation where dest:fileA.txt is different between any remote.

I don't recommend doing this - the VFS cache for a remote was designed to be under the exclusive control of a single rclone instance.

You might want to look at the union backend here - that could be more what you want.

[Edrock200 (Ed)]

Thank you. I have tested this in varying scenarios and mount that it works well if cycle remotes of the same name pointing to the same source, but only if not simultaneously mounted.