They've used google-drive-ocamlfuse to mount the drive in Linux, which if I recall correctly is direct access, rather than the way it works in Windows

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 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/

[–] hexeth@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mistake, they chose a different implementation

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 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?

[–] hexeth@lemmy.ca 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

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

It makes sense that you can do this, as it's how Chromebooks work, and they run on ~~Chrome OS~~ ~~Android~~ ~~Linux~~

[–] MuThyme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh cool