[tor-talk] A question about Tor & Hidden Services

[grarpamp]

>> hidden service directly to the control socket, without writing it to the
>> hard drive (and without passing it to the process as a startup argument).
>
> Not currently. We'd welcome a control protocol patch to implement that.
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1949

For that matter, all of .tor could be optioned out to run in core with no
state on disk at all. As could the config be loaded into an idle process
and fired off. Sure, every OS has it's ramdrives, so not a huge thing.