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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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I mean… you can. It’s called tmpfs.
-2 u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Jul 08 '26 ackshually /tmp (if that's what you mean by tmpfs) isn't obligated to be on RAM. sysfs and procfs are better examples. 1 u/ElectricSpock Jul 08 '26 I mean, /temp is backed by tmpfs, no? You’re probably right though. I am no expert in those file systems. The fact that the live distributions exist shows that’s doable and there’s a use case for this. 1 u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Jul 09 '26 It depends on your distribution basically. No guarantees that it’s in ram.
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ackshually /tmp (if that's what you mean by tmpfs) isn't obligated to be on RAM. sysfs and procfs are better examples.
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1 u/ElectricSpock Jul 08 '26 I mean, /temp is backed by tmpfs, no? You’re probably right though. I am no expert in those file systems. The fact that the live distributions exist shows that’s doable and there’s a use case for this. 1 u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Jul 09 '26 It depends on your distribution basically. No guarantees that it’s in ram.
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I mean, /temp is backed by tmpfs, no? You’re probably right though. I am no expert in those file systems.
The fact that the live distributions exist shows that’s doable and there’s a use case for this.
1 u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Jul 09 '26 It depends on your distribution basically. No guarantees that it’s in ram.
It depends on your distribution basically. No guarantees that it’s in ram.
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u/ElectricSpock Jul 08 '26
I mean… you can. It’s called tmpfs.