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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by Sidnicious on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:02PM (#14944610)
I would guess that it’s given that capacity, but the memory is allocated lazily.
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Re:Tofu – The opposite of a font by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:26AM (#14946686)
Correct; tmpfs only uses as much memory as as is used by the files it contains.
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