So far in testing files which I've streamed download and play without issue. I did notice though that this morning the cache is starting to fill up with movies and TV shows that haven't been watched. I assume this is maybe a side effect of maybe a recently added file or a recently scanned file. I that was the case, would it be executed that the scanned file was completely downloaded to the cache folder or should it be a segment of the file to generate meta data from?
Hi I've been using the new VFS cache for a while and it's fixed all the problems I had with the old cache backend completely so thank you!
I've gone so far as using the latest beta on my Android phone to mount a crypted Google Drive for music streaming, caching data for when I enter a no signal environment (currently on holiday and very common in SW England). Its working far better than I ever expected. The only problem I have is that when I restart my phone, I need an internet connection just to start the mount.
Are there any plans on caching the directory structure and being able to start a VFS cache mount without an internet connection? Using the cached data until a data connection is re-established, essentially acting like a true/full cache?
So it's a bit confusing as it does sparse files. That means if you check the file, you'd see a 10GB file but in actuality, it only has a MB of the file downloaded. So in my example, I have a 25GB file, but only 19MB is in use. If you do a du on the file, you can see the actual use.
Something scanned the files. Sonarr/Radarr/Emby, they are all setup to scan by default every 12 hours. Plex scans periodically too. Most often it's mediainfo or ffmpegprobe calls.
It will just be the data it downloaded and used, so just a partial. Probably around the size of the vfs-chunk-size.
You can adjust the scanning in those apps. Emby look for "tasks" under settings. For plex, look under library in the settings. For sonarr/radarr, you need to use the new UI (preview/beta versions) and then go into the media management settings, find the setting to only scan the disk when doing a manual refresh. Also turn off media analysis, it's pretty useless.
Thank you. Removed --allow-non-empty and commented --transfer out until I can verify its not needed with the new vfs caching system. It was a hang over from my original mount system migration.