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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They've used google-drive-ocamlfuse to mount the drive in Linux, which if I recall correctly is direct access, rather than the way it works in Windows

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No they didn't. They used rclone and mounted Google drive in vfs-cach mode which means it's firstly written to the drive before it's synced to the cloud

https://blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My mistake, they chose a different implementation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So, if they did use a direct storage mode connection instead of this cache method with a Gbit+ Internet connection, do you think it would be faster than swap on an HDD?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I can't imagine a time when anyone would ever make a cloud swap drive. You want the swap to be as fast as possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No. It also has to be written to GDrive's storage

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It makes sense that you can do this, as it's how Chromebooks work, and they run on ~~Chrome OS~~ ~~Android~~ Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh cool