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paulgb ◴[30 Apr 24 21:10 UTC] No.40216398[source]▶

This is really neat, but when I saw the headline I got excited that it was something I have been looking for / considering writing, and I figure the comments here would be a good place to ask if something like this exists:

Is there a FUSE filesystem that runs in-memory (like tmpfs) while mounted, and then when dismounted it serializes to a single file on disk? The closest I can find are FUSE drivers that mount archive files, but then you don't get things like symlinks.

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1. khc ◴[30 Apr 24 21:39 UTC] No.40216686[source]▶

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does it have to be fuse? cant you mount a disk image with loopback

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2. metadat ◴[30 Apr 24 21:44 UTC] No.40216749[source]▶

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But will the disk image be fully stored in memory? No.. not with loopback. Either that, or it won't be mutable in memory with commit on unmount.

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3. andrewflnr ◴[30 Apr 24 21:46 UTC] No.40216775[source]▶

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Wouldn't a disk image have a fixed size? It could be a pain to resize.