[Info-vax] swap and page files

[Paul Sture]

In article <kc1ukb$16h$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> 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.)

I was thinking of machines booting from local disks (and for the 
purposes of that a Fibrechannel disk at a remote site can look like a 
local disk), but thanks for the reminder that NFS can do this.

-- 
Paul Sture