Plexdrive

Plexdrive allows you to mount your Google Drive account as fuse filesystem.

The project is comparable to projects like rclone or node-gdrive-fuse, but optimized for media streaming e.g. with plex ;)

I tried using rclone a long time, but got API Quota errors ever day, or more times a day. So I decided to try node-gdrive-fuse. The problem here was, that it missed some of my media files, so I started implementing my own file system library.

Installation

1. First you should install fuse on your system
2. Then you should download the newest release from the GitHub release page.
3. Create your own client id and client secret (see https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id).
4. Run the application like this

./plexdrive /path/to/my/mount

Usage

Usage of ./plexdrive:
  --chunk-size int
    	The size of each chunk that is downloaded (in byte) (default 5242880)
  --clear-chunk-age duration
    	The maximum age of a cached chunk file (default 30m0s)
  --clear-chunk-interval duration
    	The time to wait till clearing the chunk directory (default 1m0s)
  -c, --config string
    	The path to the configuration directory (default "~/.plexdrive")
  -o, --fuse-options string
    	Fuse mount options (e.g. -o allow_other,...)
  --gid int
    	Set the mounts GID (-1 = default permissions) (default -1)
  --refresh-interval duration
    	The time to wait till checking for changes (default 5m0s)
  -t, --temp string
    	Path to a temporary directory to store temporary data (default "/tmp")
  --uid int
    	Set the mounts UID (-1 = default permissions) (default -1)
  -v, --verbosity int
    	Set the log level (0 = error, 1 = warn, 2 = info, 3 = debug, 4 = trace)
  --version
    	Displays program's version information

Supported FUSE mount options

• allow_other
• allow_root
• allow_dev
• allow_non_empty_mount
• allow_suid
• max_readahead=1234
• default_permissions
• excl_create
• fs_name=myname
• local_volume
• writeback_cache
• volume_name=myname

Cache by usage

If you set the --clear-chunk-age to e.g. 24 hours your files will be stored for 24 hours on your harddisk. This prevents you from downloading the file everytime it is accessed so will have a faster playback start, avoid stuttering and spare API calls.

Everytime a file is accessed it will the caching time will be extended. E.g. You access a file at 20:00, then it will be deleted on the next day at 20:00. If you access the file e.g. at 18:00 the next day, the file will be deleted the day after at 18:00 and so on.

Init files

Personally I start the program with systemd. You can use this configuration

[Unit]
Description=Plexdrive
AssertPathIsDirectory=/mnt/drive
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/plexdrive -v 2 /mnt/drive
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/drive
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Crypted mount with rclone

[Unit]
Description=Google Drive (rclone)
AssertPathIsDirectory=/mnt/media
After=plexdrive.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount --config /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --allow-other ldrive: /mnt/media
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/media
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target