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vfs: add ability to exclude files from being uploaded (eg for temporary files)

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#2,109 opened on Feb 28, 2018

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Description

Issue 1: rclone uploads ~partial files (which are not ready yet) and I want rclone mount to "ignore" these files and NOT uploading them to the cloud Issue 2: I want rclone to ignore whole directories to NOT upload to it's mount. ie, .grab directories that Plex DVR creates.

I've tried --exclude and couldn't get it to work as expect (or at all) rclone mount does not respect exclude parameters

Thanks!

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Research direction
Implement the exclude flag for rclone mount by integrating the existing filter system into the mount command's file list. Start by examining how the 'sync' command handles excludes and then adapt that logic for the mount FUSE layer.
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go
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clibackend
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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Gorclone
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