Overv/vramfs
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VRAM based file system for Linux
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 4 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-12-14 · latest 2026-06-03
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…implemented the same idea with OpenCL: https://github.com/theblazehen/vramblk There is originally https://github.com/Overv/vramfs however that has the overhead of a FUSE filesystem + loop device when using as a swap device. The performance…
comment by theblazehen · 2026-06-03 · in Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux -
…pretty obsolete now. That page also has a fuse filesystem implementation on top of opencl - https://github.com/Overv/vramfs - which may be more compatible.
comment by kimixa · 2026-06-03 · in Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux -
Linux alternative: https://github.com/Overv/vramfs ; HN thread (from 2 years ago) – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747057
comment by helb · 2016-11-28 · in Show HN: RAM Disk Backed by GPU Memory(VRAM)