In case anyone is curious if this would work, LTT tried it: https://youtu.be/minxwFqinpw
spoilers 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.
Thanks! I hate watching a whole video for something that could be a paragraph at most.
To be fair, the video covers a lot more than just that answer.
Very much possible, but I’m aware of what swap is and how does it work. That’s my problem with videos in general - if it was an article, I can easily skim through the parts I know and read only parts that interest me.
I totally understand. Articles are much better at actually finding information. Videos are more entertaining though. There’s nothing in that video that really couldn’t have been in an article.
Thank 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?
The video also explains why it doesn’t really work; the latency is so large, the system is better off getting the files from local storage.
I kind of assumed that haha, this wouldn’t be something you’d do for practical purposes. Still fun though!
yeah, leak all swapped data into their cloud * shiver *
You’re right, we should add an encryption step as well!
Furiously sets up a LUKS swap partition on Google Drive
this hurts my brain
Will kind-of-work for users with gigabit+ links, actually.
It really doesn’t …the latency is sooo bad
That’s why “kind-of-work”.
Like speaking third most Italian.
If it quacks, walks like a duck and looks like a duck - then it is a duck.
If it mounts like swap and you can use it as swap - then it is a swap space.
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Not at all, it’s way too slow.
It really doesn’t …the latency is sooo bad
My ISP: what a wonderful thing you have there. I will definitely not charge you an arm and a leg for the bandwidth
is that a whole petabyte of swap???
That’s one way of making your temp memory even slower.
could the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?
Nope, it’s always in memory (while module is loaded).
could the filesystem driver get evicted to swap?
