tmpfs

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Techniques

A temporary file system stored in memory.

Why it's here

Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by open-source activity, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

Evidence (1)

3Hacker News·7/19/2026open_source
Rebuilding a Raspberry Pi home server after microSD failure
The author describes a Raspberry Pi 4B home server that became unbootable after a likely failed microSD card, worsened by a recent power outage. They rebuilt the setup with a focus on reducing writes to the SD card, adding backups and redundancy, and moving volatile data to RAM-based storage and zram swap under NixOS.