[rescue] s/390 primary/secondary, multi-level, real/extended, swap, etc.

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Feb 6 16:37:25 CST 2002


On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:28:17PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 6, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > > > Multi-level RAM.
> > > >
> > > > Real and Extended is what the system calls it.
> > > 
> > > Actually, it depends on the OS.
> > 
> > Yeah -- I suspect under Unix it would be called "swap".
> 
>   Secondary storage on an S/390 (and going back to the 370
> architecture I believe) is actually *memory*, not disk.

Would this be at all equivilent to using a ramdisk (the hardware kinda,
not the software hacks) as /tmp and as the swap partition?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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