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acozzette / BUSE

A block device in user space for Linux
GNU General Public License v2.0
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"busevkrm", a Vulkan RAM-disk for swap use (assuming it doesn't deadl… #37

Closed 20kdc closed 3 years ago

20kdc commented 3 years ago

Obviously the nature of this sort of thing means it should be considered "super experimental and might really wreck your system". I just needed the RAM, and I figure other people might need the RAM too.

This might also not really be in-scope for BUSE, but I'm not really sure where to put it in that case.

Note that it is entirely possible that this actually secretly uses regular memory and I just haven't worked it out yet. Or it may do so dependent on driver. Or... Point is, caveat emptor.

nixomose commented 3 years ago

just want to take this opportunity for some blatent self promotion... https://github.com/nixomose/zosbd2

20kdc commented 3 years ago

Ok, but how well does it handle swap? Because my thing just crashed again. Safe to say too unstable for use, closing PR