Nick Craig-Wood d183f4a43d azureblob: list very large containers in parallel with list_parallelism
Add a new "list_parallelism" advanced option (requires use_arrow_list) which
splits a directory's blob-name keyspace into ranges and lists them
concurrently using the Arrow startFrom/endBefore range parameters. Both
recursive (ListR) and single-directory listings benefit.

The keyspace is sharded with a single-case (digit+lowercase) character
ladder. Single case is deliberate: the service validates startFrom /
endBefore case-insensitively (while listing case-sensitively), so a
mixed-case boundary pair is rejected with a 400; its endBefore filtering is
byte-ordered, so the listing is exact.

The service only honours endBefore on the Arrow listing path of accounts with
Blob Listing with Apache Arrow enabled: elsewhere it either rejects the
request with 400 OperationNotSupportedWithFeatureMissing or, if it fell back
to XML, would ignore the shards' upper bounds. Both cases are detected and
the parallel listing falls back to a sequential listing.

Listing 100,000 objects from a well-connected server:

    config                 time    vs XML
    xml                   23.9s     1.0x
    use_arrow_list         6.9s     3.5x
    list_parallelism=2     4.4s     5.5x
    list_parallelism=4     2.8s     8.4x
    list_parallelism=6     2.2s    10.9x
    list_parallelism=10    1.5s    15.4x
    list_parallelism=20    1.4s    17.6x
    list_parallelism=30    1.1s    21.7x

So Apache Arrow listing alone is ~3.5x faster than XML, and parallel listing
takes that to ~20x. The ladder caps at 37 shards, so the benefit plateaus
beyond list_parallelism=30.

The option is hidden from the configurator, command line help and docs
until the feature is officially released.
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Rclone

Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

Storage providers

  • 1Fichier 📄
  • Akamai Netstorage 📄
  • Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS) 📄
  • Amazon S3 📄
  • ArvanCloud Object Storage (AOS) 📄
  • Bizfly Cloud Simple Storage 📄
  • Backblaze B2 📄
  • Box 📄
  • Ceph 📄
  • China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS) 📄
  • Citrix ShareFile 📄
  • Cloudflare R2 📄
  • Cloudinary 📄
  • Cubbit DS3 📄
  • DigitalOcean Spaces 📄
  • Digi Storage 📄
  • Dreamhost 📄
  • Drime 📄
  • Dropbox 📄
  • Enterprise File Fabric 📄
  • Exaba 📄
  • Fastly Object Storage 📄
  • Fastmail Files 📄
  • FileLu 📄
  • Filen 📄
  • Files.com 📄
  • FlashBlade 📄
  • FTP 📄
  • GoFile 📄
  • Google Cloud Storage 📄
  • Google Drive 📄
  • Google Photos 📄
  • HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) 📄
  • Hetzner Object Storage 📄
  • Hetzner Storage Box 📄
  • HiDrive 📄
  • Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) 📄
  • HTTP 📄
  • Huawei Cloud Object Storage Service(OBS) 📄
  • Huawei Drive 📄
  • iCloud Drive 📄
  • ImageKit 📄
  • Internet Archive 📄
  • Internxt 📄
  • Jottacloud 📄
  • IBM COS S3 📄
  • Impossible Cloud 📄
  • Intercolo Object Storage 📄
  • IONOS Cloud 📄
  • Koofr 📄
  • Leviia Object Storage 📄
  • Liara Object Storage 📄
  • Linkbox 📄
  • Linode Object Storage 📄
  • Magalu Object Storage 📄
  • Mail.ru Cloud 📄
  • Memset Memstore 📄
  • MEGA 📄
  • MEGA S4 Object Storage 📄
  • Memory 📄
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage 📄
  • Microsoft Azure Files Storage 📄
  • Microsoft OneDrive 📄
  • Minio 📄
  • Nextcloud 📄
  • Blomp Cloud Storage 📄
  • OpenDrive 📄
  • OpenStack Swift 📄
  • Oracle Cloud Storage 📄
  • Oracle Object Storage 📄
  • Outscale 📄
  • OVHcloud Object Storage (Swift) 📄
  • OVHcloud Object Storage (S3-compatible) 📄
  • ownCloud 📄
  • pCloud 📄
  • Petabox 📄
  • PikPak 📄
  • Pixeldrain 📄
  • premiumize.me 📄
  • put.io 📄
  • Proton Drive 📄
  • QingStor 📄
  • Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo) 📄
  • Rabata Cloud Storage 📄
  • Quatrix 📄
  • Rackspace Cloud Files 📄
  • RackCorp Object Storage 📄
  • rsync.net 📄
  • Scaleway 📄
  • Scality (RING / ARTESCA) 📄
  • Seafile 📄
  • Seagate Lyve Cloud 📄
  • SeaweedFS 📄
  • Selectel Object Storage 📄
  • Servercore Object Storage 📄
  • SFTP 📄
  • Shade 📄
  • SMB / CIFS 📄
  • Spectra Logic 📄
  • Storj 📄
  • SugarSync 📄
  • Synology C2 Object Storage 📄
  • Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) 📄
  • Uloz.to 📄
  • US3 Object Storage 📄
  • Wasabi 📄
  • WebDAV 📄
  • Yandex Disk 📄
  • Zadara Object Storage 📄
  • Zero Services (ZERO-Z3) 📄
  • Zoho WorkDrive 📄
  • Zata.ai 📄
  • The local filesystem 📄

Please see the full list of all storage providers and their features

Virtual storage providers

These backends adapt or modify other storage providers

  • Alias: rename existing remotes 📄
  • Archive: read archive files 📄
  • Cache: cache remotes (DEPRECATED) 📄
  • Chunker: split large files 📄
  • Combine: combine multiple remotes into a directory tree 📄
  • Compress: compress files 📄
  • Crypt: encrypt files 📄
  • Hasher: hash files 📄
  • Union: join multiple remotes to work together 📄

Features

  • MD5/SHA-1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity
  • Timestamps preserved on files
  • Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis
  • Copy mode to just copy new/changed files
  • Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical
  • Bisync (two way) to keep two directories in sync bidirectionally
  • Check mode to check for file hash equality
  • Can sync to and from network, e.g. two different cloud accounts
  • Optional large file chunking (Chunker)
  • Optional transparent compression (Compress)
  • Optional encryption (Crypt)
  • Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount)
  • Multi-threaded downloads to local disk
  • Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDAV/FTP/SFTP/DLNA

Installation & documentation

Please see the rclone website for:

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License

This is free software under the terms of the MIT license (check the COPYING file included in this package).

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