Rclone + Encfs and UnionFS-Fuse extremely slow?

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Hello,

I have been browsing reddit, these forums, as well as google searches and am finding information that suggests rclone mount is an alternative to acdcli.

I am an acdcli, encfs, UnionFS-Fuse user who recently needed to change dedicated servers. I figured this was the best time as any to try out an rclone mount. I am familiar with rclone in the sense that I’d use it to copy files from the server to ACD, but not familiar with the mounting options.

I was able to get folders to mount encrypted using rclone and encfs. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but my Plex library has been updating for the past 30 hours or so. I understand large libraries might take a while for its intital scan, but my library isn’t “HUGE”… it’s around 7.5 TB.

Has anyone else experienced a similar experience? It just seems extremely slow compared to the former setup, but I continuously am reading about people who have converted from acdcli to rclone.

I am using this command to via a @reboot crontab script to mount - is there maybe a better way of doing it?

/usr/sbin/rclone mount --allow-non-empty --read-only --allow-other --max-read-ahead 200M --checkers 16 --quiet --stats 0 acd:Plex /home/plex/acd-encrypted/ &

The server I am using is a Xeon 1225v2 with 32 GB of ram for what its worth and I am located in the US connecting to acd in the US as well.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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Interested in responses too.
Single file read via rclone mount performs horribly for me, too. Somewhere between 300 KB/s and 2.5 MB/s. This is even without the encFS or unionFS/overlayFS layers, so in my case and quite possibly yours too, the problem is fuse.
In contrast, i get up to 100 MB/s with rclone copy/move/sync.

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Last time i did initial scan was end of November, my lib was around 25TB and it took around 20h to be completed. ( also rclone mount + ENCFS setup )

You could run a simple test just to see how long OS need to list all your files

#!/bin/bash
scriptstart=$(date +’%s’)
ls -lahR /path to mount/
echo “It took $(($(date +’%s’) - $scriptstart)) seconds to finish”
exit

p.s. Keep in mind Plex needs much longer as it opens each video file and reads header.

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What is your single file copy speed from the rclone mount?