FULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 19
linux 7.1 introduces virtual swap space, where if the system finds itself low on permanent storage space it can page out some stuff from the disk into the dedicated portion of the system ram
Show threadOleksandr Natalenko, MSE Mar 19
@lkundrak u mad bro, ram is expensive as hell, better page out stuff into /dev/null instead
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 19
@oleksandr lol n00b that's a character device
Show threadOleksandr Natalenko, MSE Mar 19
@lkundrak BREAKING: Linux 7.2 introduces a block device equivalent to /dev/null: https://github.com/abbbi/nullfsvfs
GitHub - abbbi/nullfsvfs: a virtual black hole file system that behaves like /dev/null

a virtual black hole file system that behaves like /dev/null - abbbi/nullfsvfs

GitHub
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 19
@oleksandr omg sir but its externally maintained
Show threadVlastimil Babka 🇨🇿🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 19
@lkundrak @oleksandr don't worry, @brauner recently added an upstream equivalent called simply nullfs.
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 19
@vbabka @oleksandr @brauner
unix: everything is a file
linux: everything is a filesystem
Show threadOzzelot Mar 19
@lkundrak
plan9: *everything* is a file, and it can all be talked about over the p9 protocol
@vbabka @oleksandr @brauner
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿
@ozzelot @vbabka @oleksandr @brauner that is what they tell you, but last time i checked their fork(2) didn't return a file descriptor...
Mar 19 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadOzzelot Mar 19
@lkundrak
we need more plans
@vbabka @oleksandr @brauner
Show threadFULL-FIFO DEVELOPER 🇺🇦🇨🇿Mar 19
@ozzelot @vbabka @oleksandr @brauner do not fall for the plan 9 propaganda