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by ddeck 876 days ago
It is indeed great for this, but you need to make sure your network is stable.

I use it on my desktop and laptop to mount Google drives. The problem on the laptop is that the OS sees the drive as local, and Rclone doesn't timeout on network errors. So if you are not connected to wifi and an application tries to read/write to the drive, it will hang forever. This results in most of the UI locking up under XFCE for example, if you have a Thunar window open.
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stiff 876 days ago
There is in fact a default timeout of 5 minutes and you can change it: https://rclone.org/docs/#timeout-time

I shorten it to prevent lockups like you are describing.

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ddeck 876 days ago
Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't work - for my issues at least. I have this (and conntimeout) set to 15 seconds, but it makes no difference. I tried those based on another user reporting the same issue here:

https://forum.rclone.org/t/how-to-get-rclone-mount-to-issue-...

The timeout param is listed as "If a transfer has started but then becomes idle for this long it is considered broken and disconnected". This seems to be only for file transfers in progress.

I traced it once, and Rclone gets a "temporary DNS failure" error once the network is down, but just keeps retrying.

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joshspankit 876 days ago
Sounds like you have enough for a decent bug report
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jmaker 876 days ago
Similar issues with WebDAV mounts on macOS
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