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Alexander G. M. Smith wrote:
[...]
|>>Everthing stuff that works on the assumption that what they are working
|>>on fits in RAM (or can overflow into swap space in a pinch), [...]
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| Admittedly my experiment was for a RAM disk.  It can be extended to a real
| disk if the number of inodes in a graph traversal can fit into memory (or
| otherwise can somehow be locked).  If that doesn't work, then the user
| would have to delete individual files before removing a directory cycle.

Would it work in a typical setup?  My instinct is no.

Also, there's the consideration that applications want some memory, too.

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