Rclone’s VFS Cache: A Deep Dive into Optimizing for a Local MinIO S3 Backend

I realized a critical detail about my setup: the standard vfs-cache strategy, which I picked previously, is a good starting point only if the cache’s performance is superior to the S3 backend. With this theory in mind, it was time to put it to the test.

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Audiobookshelf with S3 using rclone

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, which can also be used for ebooks. I previously stored my ebooks as PDFs in paperless-ngx, but that turned out to be somewhat unwieldy. I was searching for an alternative and found Audiobookshelf, which fulfills this need perfectly.

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Nextcloud and MinIO Integration: Why Direct S3 Fails and the Filesystem Abstraction Workaround

MinIO is a fantastic Object Storage solution, and I intended to use my distributed MinIO system as the primary external storage for Nextcloud. This distributed setup, which uses Sidekick as a load balancer for seamless node access, proved functional but revealed a critical stability flaw, particularly with mobile uploads.

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