> This (using swap as part of the tmpfs type system) is what happens on a Sun.
> I was disappointed (surprised even) in the Linux implementations because
> mounting a truly temporary /tmp was what I wanted it for.
The Linux implementation of tmpfs _does_ use swap:
tmpfs data pages go out to swap under memory pressure.
> I would like to see a tmpfs (swapfs?) that did presume that files not in use
> (lately?) would migrate out of my valuable RAM and onto the super-cheap swap
> device.
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