> Sounds like a job for ... <drum roll> ... tmpfs!!
>
> (and yes, I share your opinion that ramfs is nice _because_
> it's an easy example for filesystem code teaching)
The resource tracking ramfs isnt that much uglier to be honest. One that went
off using backing store would be, but ramfs with limits simply ensures that
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ram/foo
doesnt crash your box
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