kapitainsky
commented
4 years ago Advanced remote mount tab:
You can specify script to run after successful mount - original rclone mount is run with rc interface and called script receives required info how to "talk" to mount instance of rclone.
Mount job contains now script output window if run with some script - so you can check its output.
At the moment scripts receives:
1 - rclone executable location 2 - RC port 3 - RC username 4 - RC password 5 - mount point
as a proof of concept you can run following script (modify for windows):
#!/bin/bash
# show received parameters
echo $1
echo $2
echo $3
echo $4
echo $5
# wait a moment just to be sure
# that mounting rclone is ready
# in more advanced version we will include some check
sleep 5
# talk to rclone mount
"$1" rc "core/quit" --rc-addr localhost:$2 --rc-user $3 --rc-pass $4the last line is equivalent of running:
rclone rc "core/quit" --rc-addr localhost:1234 --rc-user username --rc-pass pass
this will instruct "rclone mount" to quit/unmount - you should see your mount changing status to finished.
If it works you can move on to some cool things like cache warming - this is actually where I had all idea from - https://forum.rclone.org/t/how-to-get-full-directory-tree-cached-on-first-mount/12535/5
The following example is from mentioned rclone forum thread - it is for Windows and only works when mounted to drive letter (of course people familiar with scripting can easily modify it to other OS and situations)
create new mount with following parameters (specify them by hand in extra options tab):
--vfs-cache-mode writes
--vfs-cache-poll-interval 20m
--vfs-cache-max-age 8760h
--vfs-cache-max-size 1024G
--attr-timeout 8700h
--dir-cache-time 8760h
--poll-interval 30s
--multi-thread-streams 0then run your mount with following script:
@echo off
echo %1
echo %2
echo %3
echo %4
echo %5
::Variables
set driveletter=%5
:: Check that the folder is valid, otherwise wait until it is
echo Waiting for %driveletter% to be ready ...
:LOOP1
vol %driveletter% >nul 2>nul
if errorlevel 1 (
echo " "| set /p dummyName=.
timeout /t 1 > nul
goto LOOP1
) else (
echo.
echo Drive %driveletter% OK!,
)
echo.
echo Warming up cache...
echo This may take a few minutes to complete
echo You can use the cloud-drive normally while this runs
echo.
echo Awaiting completion-message from RC...
%1 rc vfs/refresh -v recursive=true --rc-addr localhost:%2 --rc-user %3 --rc-pass %4 > nul
if not %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 (
echo Something went wrong during precaching.
) else (
echo Cache warmup for %driveletter% OK!
)
You can start using your mount immediately but in the background (you can check script output in jobs) rclone will be busy caching locally remote directory structure - depending on your remote after few moments browsing your mount will feel like local drive.
If you would like to understand more about cache warming concept have a look at this excellent primer from rclone forum by @thestigma:
https://forum.rclone.org/t/a-short-primer-on-pre-caching-or-pre-listing-technique/13171
In summary - it opens completely new possibilities. Cache warming is perfect example how useful it can be. I only intend to provide cache warming example scripts in the final release and leave rest for people creativity - my aim is to provide way to use it.
thanamaha2002
caspertone2003
Here it is the latest beta version with improved mounting - mostly self explanatory when you try except advanced tab - I will describe it in a moment.
@thanamaha2002 , @FoxP - I would appreciate if you try and comment.
Anybody else is welcomed to test - windows binary is here:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq335pidOrBV4IJIsro8BeILdqSxwA
For Linux or macOS please compile yourself from kptsky_testing branch. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to release betas cross platform - and for linux it is trivial to build yourself - see instructions here. Final release is expected in couple of weeks and of course will be for all OS.
@thanamaha2002 - it also includes fix for #90
PS. This is BETA version - so not everything might work as expected.