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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by icedchai on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:03PM (#22078620)
You'd get too many support requests from customers wondering why all their data disappeared after they rebooted.
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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:20PM (#22078786)
I wonder if you could map the writes to the drive to some sort of permanent storage programatically.
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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by freehunter on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:24PM (#22079508)
You could. You’d just need some kind of file system driver that connects the application to a more stateful disk so as things pass through temporary memory they’re written to an SSD or HDD.

Of course that already exists, and DO offers it for $5.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by totony on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:06PM (#22079958)
This can be done using overlayfs, but it kind of defeats the purpose since you now need a storage device
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