The security angle is a bit of a canard, though. Most compromises involve compromising running applications, not OS-level filesystem exploits. This would impr

The security angle is a bit of a canard, though. Most compromises involve compromising running applications, not OS-level filesystem exploits. This would improve security and reduce the potential attack surface if this were used for ephemeral mongodb instances, but only in that it would prevent poor programming practices from lasting beyond a working session.