I wondered if tmpfs and zram do negatively interfere with each other in any way? After what I've read about it I'm unsure whether there is a positive cumulative effect accomplishable with that combination.
Has someone made experiences with that combination?
Thank you in advance for useful answers!
So to answer the question I think you're asking, it is possible to use these two together, and doing so won't cause any ill effects on the other.
I don't know if you are familiar with /dev/shm, but it's a filesystem mounted in RAM which appears to be a folder. SHM, tmpfs and zram are all slightly different implementations which lead to the same output - storage of data in RAM instead of a secondary storage device. As far as I know, the differences lie in how they react when RAM starts filling up.
Since you're asking this question you've probably heard of swap - when memory reaches near-full capacity, the OS starts moving data between RAM and a dedicated partition. From what I remember, and this might be wrong, but tmpfs will only be swapped when absolutely necessary, and will always try to remain in RAM. /dev/shm can be swapped as readily as any other data in RAM, and I don't know about zram but I suspect it's the same.
