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Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon
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overlayfs mode can reduce sync speed. #298

Closed yutayu closed 3 years ago

yutayu commented 3 years ago

Please write reason why wiki,if you have a time .

yutayu commented 3 years ago

Why do I have another browser profile directory "foo-back-ovfs" when I enable overlayfs?

The way overlayfs works is to mount a read-only base copy (so-called lower dir) of the profile, and manage the new data on top of that. In order to avoid resyncing to the read-only file system, a copy is used instead. So using overlayfs is a trade off: faster initial sync times and less memory usage vs. disk space in the home dir.

This is . excuse me.

yutayu commented 3 years ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon#What_is_overlayfs_mode?

yutayu commented 3 years ago

I confused among sync and unsync and resync lol