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Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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@Chewy7324 It seems be fun but the latency should be terrible 😅
Latency isn't the only issue.
You could have a secondary layer that tarred every file on write, since tar maintains permission flags. It could also fix symbolic linking, but not hard linking. As an added benefit, it would drastically reduce the usefulness of the system.
What about using a Google Sheets spreadsheet with the file content encoded in BASE64?
You maniac... What are you gonna do next? Run a cpu in a spreadsheet? Oh wait...
Once it all gets to ram, you should be just fine