Yes all the time. Anything that would otherwise beat up my storage is performed in ram and then committed back to disk. I also use that any time I need to repeatedly grep large data-sets. I also log non critical data to ram and then rotate it out to disk so that web visitors are not thrashing my storage regardless if spinning disk or SSD. My daily driver creates several tmpfs mounts with specific UID/GID's on startup for my home directory to keep some applications from persisting data.
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Yes all the time. Anything that would otherwise beat up my storage is performed in ram and then committed back to disk. I also use that any time I need to repeatedly grep large data-sets. I also log non critical data to ram and then rotate it out to disk so that web visitors are not thrashing my storage regardless if spinning disk or SSD. My daily driver creates several tmpfs mounts with specific UID/GID's on startup for my home directory to keep some applications from persisting data.