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Avoid allowing access to ECS buckets used by GeoDrive by non-GeoDrive applications or users. Updates to data stored in GeoDrive buckets by non-GeoDrive applications will lead to issues. GeoDrive tries to keep relevant Windows operations in sync with ECS by checking the corresponding buckets for changes that may have happened without its knowledge.
It does this with the following process:
These three functions are gated by the “Update Wait Time” parameter. This means that if a process opens a non-existent file, it will check ECS the first time, but in subsequent times it will immediately fail the open.
Often GeoDrive performance issues can be due to operations as described above. If a folder contains 50,000 items, for example, a sync may take a minute or more to complete. Only allowing GeoDrive access to dedicated GeoDrive-only buckets, eliminates issues with Windows and ECS being out-of-sync.