Re: Bit bucket directory

Noob <root@localhost> writes:

Noob wrote:

Is there a way to have a "black hole" directory, like /dev/null is a
"black hole" file.
Let's call such a directory /dev/nulldir. Anything written to
nulldir would disappear, and return success.
Background : I want to scp multiple large files to a remote system
that has very limited disk space. (I'm testing scp behavior.)
$ scp xx1 xx2 root@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/dev/null
scp: /dev/null: Not a directory
I'd want to write...
$ scp xx1 xx2 root@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/dev/nulldir
and have it work :-)
Any ideas? Or some other way to look at the problem?
(My OS is Linux 2.6.22)

No cookie? :-)

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/639765

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