Overv/vramfs

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

vramfs is a Linux utility that creates a file system in a GPU's video RAM using FUSE and OpenCL, functioning like a ramdisk backed by VRAM. It is a novelty/experimental tool not intended for serious production use, achieving roughly 2 GB/s read and write performance.

Use cases

• mount a filesystem in my GPU's VRAM on Linux
• use spare video memory as a fast temporary disk
• create a ramdisk-like scratch space on my graphics card
• benchmark file I/O performance against VRAM
• experiment with FUSE filesystems using OpenCL memory

When to choose

• you have a discrete GPU with large VRAM and want to experiment with using it as storage
• you need a fast scratch disk for temporary files and want to try VRAM
• you want to learn how FUSE user-space filesystems work

When to avoid

• you need reliable, production-grade storage
• you rely on your GPU for graphics workloads that need its VRAM
• you need maximum throughput, since a ramdisk is significantly faster

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

file-system cli developer-tools operating-systems hardware cli fuse vram ramdisk opencl gpu-memory filesystem linux

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