[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-40BC21.17383902012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > Back to VMS.  I have now replaced all my grey BA356 with blue ones.
> > During the first change, I shut down the node while I powered off the
> > box.  For the second one, I forgot.  However, apart from some expected
> > mount verification, there was no problem.  How easy is it on other
> > systems to power down the system disk then power it back on? 
> 
> That's an interesting question.  VMS is the only system I have come 
> across in recent years which can survive a system disk going off line.

Several years ago, while sorting cables at home, I accidentally pulled 
the SCSI cable from the system-disk shadow set on a VAX.  Apart from 
some mount-verification messages, no effect.  Literally the next day at 
work I was re-arranging some cables under my desk and pulled out the 
mouse from a PC.  Had to reboot.  No joke.  Nuff said.  :-)