The NOVA filesystem
The NOVA filesystem
Posted Aug 10, 2017 15:31 UTC (Thu) by bof (subscriber, #110741)In reply to: The NOVA filesystem by krakensden
Parent article: The NOVA filesystem
tmpfs is totally usable with large files - as long as you have enough RAM to spare and don't have it go to swap.
I use tmpfs continuously on server VMs, with multi GB files and/or up to 80 GB in smaller files (precomputed mysql tables...) - always worked without any issues. However, these VMs don't have any swap configured (or even swap support in the kernel), so YMMV.