directory read caching?

  • I have two Kodi systems - one is an AMD APU A8 running Kodi 16.1 connected to my network via ethernet, and the other is an rPi3 running LE alpha, newest build as of today. It is connected via wireless, in the next room from my router.

    I have a NAS which has some directories which are huge. Thousands of directories. The A8 loads that directory in under 2 seconds. On the PI this takes sometimes almost 30 seconds. I realize this is probably due to some limitation in the PI hardware, or something to do with wifi speed vs ethernet. I don't want to use a scraper and I don't want to reorganize my NAS (ie: one folder for each letter of the alphabet).

    Is there any way that we can get cached content lists rather than read-every-time on the current directory? So like if I go down into a folder from the browser, it loads the list of files once, and keeps them in memory until I go up out of a directory and back in to force reload? Is that already an option?