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Running a Jellyfin media library on a cloud drive, scanning all night without stopping? Switching to strm, a text file of several KB is equivalent to 4GB
I directly added the Alibaba Cloud Drive mount directory to the Jellyfin media library, scanned all night without stopping, and the cloud drive data burned through more than two gigabytes. The root issue is that scanning requires reading each file header one by one, so reading files from the mounting drive is equivalent to a real download. After switching to the strm solution, 317 movies can be stored in a few minutes and only streamed via cloud drive during playback....
