Storage behind a provider, or the other machine's folder.
rclone mounts storage that lives behind a provider, so there is a bucket, an account and a bill somewhere. KEIBIDROP mounts one machine's folder on another directly, with no provider and no account, and a read pulls only the bytes it touches.
| KEIBIDROP | rclone | |
|---|---|---|
| Storage provider needed | None | Yes |
| Account | None | Provider account |
| 10,000 file tree usable on the peer | 0.12 s | 1.9 s cold enumerate |
| Re-read after a same-size in place edit | 16 MB moved, byte exact | 0 bytes moved, stale content |
| Filesystem driver | On the mounting side | On the mounting side |
| Encryption | End to end, X25519 with ML-KEM-1024 | Provider transport, or rclone crypt |
| Source code | Open, MPL-2.0 | Open, MIT |
| Number of backends | One, a peer | Dozens of providers |
KEIBIDROP joins two machines directly and the folder stays where it already is, so nothing is uploaded to a third party first and there is no storage bill. rclone reaches storage through a provider.
On the same machine on the same day, a 2 MB in place edit inside a file left rclone's mount serving the old bytes, and it stayed stale after ls -la and a forced rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true. KEIBIDROP moved 16 MB and matched byte for byte, because the origin pushes an announce rather than the reader polling size and modification time. Conditions: rclone v1.75.0, rclone serve sftp on localhost with --vfs-cache-mode full, macFUSE, loopback, measured 14 August 2026.
On the cold 256 MB read rclone moved fewer wire bytes, 268 MB against 293 MB, which is plain SFTP framing against AEAD framing and puts the cost of end to end encryption at about 9 percent. rclone also needs the same FUSE driver on every platform, so a driver is not a difference between the two.
No. KeibiDrop joins two machines directly and the folder stays where it already is. rclone reaches storage through a provider.
A same size in place edit does not change the size or, in that run, trigger invalidation, and rclone over SFTP has no push channel from the origin. KeibiDrop's origin announces the change, so the reader learns about it.
No. Both need a driver on the machine that mounts, so that is not a difference between them.
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