Is RClone mount the most stable option for mounting Google Drive on Linux? Speed doesn't matter too much, just needs to be as stable as a local drive (will be used for automated upload of a few, small files per day - not more than 20 GB per day in roughly 50 MB chunks).
Posted Jun 8, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC
mount is still considered experimental last I checked, any reason you can't use sync or copy?
The entire stack of applications expects a local filesystem, but Google Drive works much better cost wise (if the mounts works, that is)
I know some people have Plex libraries pointed to rclone mounts, so it's possible it will work for you also, but there's only one way to find out.
When I tried converting a file with ffmpeg inside the mount, it errored out spectacularly so I had to convert locally then rclone move to gdrive. Different programs react to access time and I/O buffers differently, so you'll just have to try it and see.
I recommend plexmediadrive, I've had a much more stable experience with it.
If it's not important to you, that the files are directly available in google drive, you can use rclone cache with "offline uploading": https://rclone.org/cache/#offline-uploading
That way files written into the mount directory will be written to a local folder at first, and then after some time uploaded to google drive.
It will be much more reliable. Rclone mount without cache isn't reliable at all, for writing.
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