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Tmpfs only with RAM

How to be sure that a tmpfs filesystem can only deal with physical and it's not using a swap partition on disk ? Since i have a slow HDD and a fast RAM i would like, at least, giving higher priority ...
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What is the appropriate value of vm.swappiness when using zram?

I'm using zram on my computer as a compressed RAM-backed swap. When the system needs to swap something out, swapping it to a zram-backed swap file is more or less equivalent to compressing that data ...