[Info-vax] swap and page files

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:

(snip)
> 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.
 
> When I was running a Mac laptop booted to an external disk and no UPS 
> for example, with a short power cut the laptop would survive on its 
> internal battery, but of course the external disk would go offline.

I presume you don't count diskless machines with the system (root
partition) NFS mounted.

With the traditional (and still recommended) hard mount, an NFS client
will wait forever for its server to come back.

(I once sold a machine that others still had mounted. Had to reboot
those clients, as the server was never coming back.)

-- glen