Status about using Rclone for music storage / playback in 2021. Access times improved?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@silkyclouds

rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --drive-pacer-burst 200 --drive-pacer-min-sleep 10ms --timeout 30m --user-agent
This command seems to store the file listing, creating file list under e:/cache/vfsMeta/

that is not correct and i understand the confusion.

to be clear, there are two caches.

each cache has:
a. different purpose
b. different data
c. different storage
d. different levels of volatility

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1. dir-cache
   a. to speed the listing of folder/file names from slow cloud based storage.
   b. a list of folder/file names.
   c. stored in memory.
   d. does not survive a reboot.

2. vfs-cache
   a. to store the contents of files read from slow cloud storage. suffice explanation for now.
   b. the contents of files.
   c. stored in local storage, in your case e:/cache.
   d. does survive a reboot.