Enterprise File Fabric

At a glance

Capability	Support
rclone support tier	Tier 4: Experimental
Checksums	None
Modification times	Kept, to 1 s
Case-insensitive names	Yes
Duplicate names allowed	No
Server-side copy	Yes
Server-side move and rename	Yes
Folder move and rename	Yes, in one step
Free space reporting	No
Empty folders	Yes
Change notifications	No
Uploads of unknown size	No
Public links	No

This backend supports Storage Made Easy’s Enterprise File Fabric™ which provides a software solution to integrate and unify File and Object Storage accessible through a global file system.

Setup notes

In CloudMount you add this drive from the Add drive screen, and the wizard asks for the options listed under Options. The notes below come from rclone’s setup guide.

Modification times and hashes

The Enterprise File Fabric allows modification times to be set on files accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

The Enterprise File Fabric does not support any data hashes at this time.

Restricted filename characters

The default restricted characters set will be replaced.

Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can’t be used in JSON strings.

Empty files

Empty files aren’t supported by the Enterprise File Fabric. Rclone will therefore upload an empty file as a single space with a mime type of application/vnd.rclone.empty.file and files with that mime type are treated as empty.

Root folder ID

You can set the root_folder_id for rclone. This is the directory (identified by its Folder ID) that rclone considers to be the root of your Enterprise File Fabric.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder hierarchy.

In order to do this you will have to find the Folder ID of the directory you wish rclone to display. These aren’t displayed in the web interface, but you can use rclone lsf to find them, for example

$ rclone lsf --dirs-only -Fip --csv filefabric:
120673758,Burnt PDFs/
120673759,My Quick Uploads/
120673755,My Syncs/
120673756,My backups/
120673757,My contacts/
120673761,S3 Storage/

The ID for “S3 Storage” would be 120673761.

Options

Standard options

The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.

url

URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to.

Type: string · Required

Choices:

https://storagemadeeasy.com: Storage Made Easy US
https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com: Storage Made Easy EU
https://yourfabric.smestorage.com: Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric

root_folder_id

ID of the root folder.

Leave blank normally.

Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.

Type: string

permanent_token

Permanent Authentication Token.

A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry you’ll see called “My Authentication Tokens”. Click the Manage button to create one.

These tokens are normally valid for several years.

For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens

Type: string

Advanced options

The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.

token

Session Token.

This is a session token which rclone caches in the config file. It is usually valid for 1 hour.

Don’t set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

Type: string

token_expiry

Token expiry time.

Don’t set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

Type: string

version

Version read from the file fabric.

Don’t set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

Type: string

encoding

The encoding for the backend.

See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

Type: Encoding · Default: Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot

description

Description of the remote.

Type: string