Download Quota Exceeded & VFS

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For me, it's not about saving bandwidth, it's about saving files.get quota, which seems to have been changed to be lower (at least for me). I haven't hit the 10tb limit. So I can afford a bit of waste on that quota. Perhaps google sees 1 file download = full size of file, even if only 128M (first chunk) is requested? If that's the case, then a change to request the whole file instead of the chunk size, would resolve the repeated download calls. This downloadquotaexceeded quota could just be a 10tb quota limit...so google thinks you downloaded 10tb worth of files, but really it was just a bunch of 128M chunks?

An API call to drive.files.get != a full download of the file. You will see in the GSuite audit a log a file 'download' for each 'get' but that does not count against your download as you are only getting a chunk of the file.

Chunked reading with the VFS was a big thing for rclone to get for GD back in mid 2018 as that's why the cache backend was good prior because it had chunked reading much like plexdrive and the other providers out there.

If you want to read up on it, you can check out this thread as it has a lot of detail on chunked reading:

New Feature: vfs-read-chunk-size

Recently a new feature got merged into rclone beta, the --vfs-read-chunk-size flag for the mount and cmount command. Probably all cloud providers will limit the daily download volume and count the requested bytes therefore. The problem is, when a file is opened for reading, rclone will request the whole file from the remote. This will add the whole file size to the download volume, even when only a few bytes are read. Additionally every seek call will request the file from the new offset until…