Russian rides Phantom to OS immortality

IIRC several years ago the Linux virtual memory manager started to optimistically write pages to swap when it was idle. If the VMM is tuned to do this more aggressively, and not to invalidate the page file on reboot, you get the benefits of Phantom without the whole hassle of writing a new OS.

So basically, virtual memory and the filesystem become one and the same thing?

Very interesting concept, especially if you combine it with the soon-to-be-ubiquitous solid state drives.

But what happens when your system crashes? And the last state was the one that caused the crash...