Okay, this is pretty sick, @ActionRetro ...

  • And yes I do know *several legit reasons to use #VRAM as voltaile storage - like when one has a shitton of cheap, used #Quadro, #Tesla or #nVidiaGrid cards and wants some non-persisten storage to cache stuff with instead of ruining SSDs with a shitload of IOPS.

Or when you build your own custom minimalist #linux (like I do -> @OS1337) it may come in handy for a non-persistent / forensic setup to be able to just chug' in a old GPU and have a system that verifyably cannot exfiltrate data.

  • Something one may want for onsite data recovery of sensitive data...

#vramfs #fuse #libfuse #vram #OpenCL

Using VRAM as a RAM Disk is Slightly Cursed...

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@stman @theruran @50htz @vidak @forthy42 obviously #nvidia doesn't have any interest fixing it and their #ECC functionality is exclusive to the highest-end #Quadro, #Tesla & #nVidiaGrid cards, usually implemented only in #Software, thus sacrificing ~ 20% of VRAM.

I'm not surprised of this at all, only that it took so long surprises me...