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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No they didn't. They used rclone and mounted Google drive in vfs-cach mode which means it's firstly written to the drive before it's synced to the cloud

https://blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mistake, they chose a different implementation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, if they did use a direct storage mode connection instead of this cache method with a Gbit+ Internet connection, do you think it would be faster than swap on an HDD?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine a time when anyone would ever make a cloud swap drive. You want the swap to be as fast as possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No. It also has to be written to GDrive's storage