Rclone Cache to Ram

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I had a different idea after playing around and thought of a way to cache to RAM.

If you use the chunk dir as /dev/shm and than configure chunk-no-memory, you are effectively using RAM only and giving rclone a limit to use so it doesn’t break the system.

My system has 32GB so my /dev/shm is 16GB so I configured rclone to use a max chunk storage of 10GB.

rclone.conf:

chunk_total_size = 10G

My startup:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount gmedia: /gmedia \
   --allow-other \
   --dir-cache-time=160h \
   --cache-chunk-path /dev/shm \
   --cache-chunk-no-memory \
   --cache-chunk-size=10M \
   --cache-info-age=168h \
   --cache-workers=6 \
   --cache-tmp-upload-path /data/rclone_upload \
   --cache-tmp-wait-time 60m \
   --buffer-size 0M \
   --syslog \
   --umask 002 \
   --rc \
   --log-level INFO

Give it a whirl!

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