Lazy Loading of VFS Listings
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enhancement
VFS / mount
- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
The associated forum post URL from https://forum.rclone.org
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What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?
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What problem are you are trying to solve?
Load the VFS listings lazily in the background and swap them atomically when they are ready. This will reduce the time spent in locks.
This is split from https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/6632 to avoid mixing up 2 different enhancements.
How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?
Load the VFS listings lazily in the background and swap them atomically when they are ready.
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Research direction
Start by reading the related issue #6632 and locating the existing VFS listing implementation; no specific files or tests are named here. Determine how background loading and atomic replacement should work, then verify that listings load lazily and lock time is reduced without changing expected VFS behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100