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.
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
is that a whole petabyte of swap???
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.
My ISP: what a wonderful thing you have there. I will definitely not charge you an arm and a leg for the bandwidth
I use Arch btw
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