The associated forum post URL from https://forum.rclone.org

https://forum.rclone.org/t/keep-rclone-dir-cache-across-reboots/19662
https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-disk-based-dir-cache-enabled-by-default-now-or-is-it-still-just-in-ram/45526

What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

rclone v1.65.2

os/version: ubuntu 23.10 (64 bit)
os/kernel: 6.5.0-27-generic (x86_64)
os/type: linux
os/arch: amd64
go/version: go1.21.6
go/linking: static
go/tags: none

What problem are you are trying to solve?

On a reboot a vfs cache refresh takes between 10 and 15 minutes. In that time other services are starting and checking directories which hangs the services because the dir structure is not cached in RAM and each service is traversing the dir tree.

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

If would be great if the dir tree was 1. frequently saved to disk to disk in case of unexpected stop and 2. saved to disk when rclone mount service was stopped and then loaded into ram again when it was started.

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