Using rclone as local cache to reduce HDD spin-up time and power consumption

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@Pilzsuppe

@kapitainsky

With --dir-cache-time 30s your dir cache expires after 30s and rclone will check your HDD for changes.

I tested this and for me it wasn't the case. I thought that maybe Linux caches the directory structure somewhere, so that it is not read directly from the HDD. My HDD were spinned down even when I used the 30s cache expiry.

rclone has two vfs caches. the vfs dir cache is stored in memory.
so it would make sense that the HDD would spin down.

can check out my overview of the two vfs caches at
to be clear, there are two caches.