Windows - mount becomes unavailable when uploading

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

Hm, why should everything stop if there’s a file being uploaded?

If you saturate the upload then it will block ACK packets for the download.

However it sounds like this isn’t the problem you are seeing.

I think you are seeing the same problem as here

`--vfs-cache-mode writes` upload expected behaviour?

On Windows Server 2012: Mount = Gdrive->Crypt (X: drive letter) Using --vfs-cache-mode writes When I copy a large file to the mount (using either the OS file Explorer or cp command, not rclone copy): The file is first copied into the local folder defined by --cache-dir Then I can see my nic’s upload bandwidth being used as the file begins uploading to Gdrive Being a large file this upload could take (say) an hour. During this (say) hour, the X: drive/mount is locked and inaccessible for …

I’ve warmed up the potential fix here - can you give it a go?

https://beta.rclone.org/branch/v1.46.0-110-g518d096f-vfs-async-release-beta/ (uploaded in 15-30 mins)