Creating In-Memory File Systems with Google’s Jimfs

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0100

Sometimes when writing an application we might consider using an in-memory file system to speed up data access or to create some kind of cache.

There are different libraries to help us here but one looks especially promising for me because it supports almost every functionality of the Java NIO File APIs added in Java 7 – from creating, reading, deleting files and directory to handling symbolic and hard links or watching directory changes with a WatchService.

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Creating In-Memory File Systems with Google’s Jimfs