In case anyone is curious if this would work, LTT tried it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw
63 0 Replyspoilers for how it works in the video:
Sadly it just crashes immediately because Google has measures in place to prevent this behavior, and the rest of the video is an ELI5 on swap space.
90 0 ReplyThanks! I hate watching a whole video for something that could be a paragraph at most.
41 0 ReplyThank you! I was curious but not ten-minute-video curious. I wonder if there's a cloud provider that doesn't block this sort of usage - could it work with onedrive/dropbox/etc?
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yeah, leak all swapped data into their cloud * shiver *
40 0 ReplyYou're right, we should add an encryption step as well!
28 0 ReplyFuriously sets up a LUKS swap partition on Google Drive
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this hurts my brain
16 0 ReplyWill kind-of-work for users with gigabit+ links, actually.
21 7 ReplyIt really doesn't ...the latency is sooo bad
23 0 ReplyThat's why "kind-of-work".
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Not at all, it's way too slow.
4 0 ReplyIt really doesn't ...the latency is sooo bad
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My ISP: what a wonderful thing you have there. I will definitely not charge you an arm and a leg for the bandwidth
15 1 Replyis that a whole petabyte of swap???
11 0 ReplyThat's one way of making your temp memory even slower.
8 0 Replycould the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?
2 1 ReplyNope, it's always in memory (while module is loaded).
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could the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?
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