From 1ee408cd996e57ef9ed68ed0840e824dbc23023c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Lu Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 23:38:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Mount Remote Storage (markdown) --- Mount-Remote-Storage.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Mount-Remote-Storage.md b/Mount-Remote-Storage.md index f800d5e..ff87af4 100644 --- a/Mount-Remote-Storage.md +++ b/Mount-Remote-Storage.md @@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ Now you can run `remote.mount` in `weed shell`: With `remote.mount`, you can mount one bucket or one of the directory in the bucket. -## Cache Meta Data -This operation will pull down all meta data from the remote storage. +## Cache Metadata + +This operation will pull down all metadata from the remote storage. + +Later, any metadata operations can be invoked locally, and respond very fast. + +## Benefits to Cache Metadata ### Speed up meta data operations This will greatly speed up metadata operations, such as file listing, directory traversal, check file size, read file modification time, etc. This operations usually are repeated often. Adding up all the network calls to the remote storage will slow down operations quite a lot.