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 username="forums+git-annex@d2ec818a5e37440c45fa5f3cbd82fe5110b32020"
 nickname="forums+git-annex"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/b6fde94dbf127b822f7b6109399d50c9"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2019-09-13T23:17:37Z"
 content="""
> I wonder, what about downloads from the remote, those could also overload some remote.

That is a good point, but it's not needed for my use case; KBFS hasn't had any trouble so far keeping up with reading data, only with writing.

> Is your KBFS remote an external special remote, or are you just using a directory special remote on that filesystem? If it were an external special remote, you could just make it delay until ready when it receives a TRANSFER request.

I originally had a directory special remote pointing to the FUSE-mounted KBFS, but I was having some issues with that, so I switched to an rsync special remote (also pointing to FUSE-mounted KBFS).

> (BTW, the solution to each git-annex copy creating a git-annex branch commit is annex.alwayscommit=false. Or perhaps usng --batch to drive a single copy command.)

Awesome, looks like either of those would be better workarounds than I have right now.  Thanks!
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