not sure it will help, as the meta data is part of the file, so rclone has to download that for every single file in the remote.
as i suggested, you should use https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-cache-mode-full
not sure it will help, as the meta data is part of the file, so rclone has to download that for every single file in the remote.
as i suggested, you should use https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-cache-mode-full