Plex server with Amazon drive - rclone crypt vs encFS speed

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

An interesting set of tests - thanks for writing them up.

I am certain that the cryptographic algorithms used for rclone crypt add a significant overhead that isn’t seen with encFS. Using encFS, the playback is almost as fast as native for me. Seeking is also very reliable. I would say that the remote Plex server is almost as fast as a local one (those Linode VPS are very quick).

I think the weak part of the rclone setup is the FUSE mount rather than the crypto. The crypto only adds a small overhead (my laptop can encrypt at 400 MB/s per core).

The FUSE mount has been improving greatly - make sure you try the latest beta: http://beta.rclone.org/v1.33-79-g77b975d/ if you didn’t already. I find I can play encrypted media quite well off ACD now, though I haven’t compared it to encfs+acd_cli.

The FUSE mount for rclone needs more caching I think.

It’s too bad, rclone + crypt is far simpler, it’s an all-in-one package. I know it was probably never devised to be used this way, but I’m hoping some performance gains can yet be had.

I’d like it to be useable in exactly that way and I’m sure it will be one day when all the planned FUSE improvements are in