At 9:58 -0700 7/17/01, Matthew Jacob wrote:

>The scanner application likely is designed to put up a message panel saying
>"'ere? Wot's this? Where did me scanner go?". The swapper application on the
>disk that has gone away will just panic the system.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing stopping us from fixing that 
panic too: if you can't get at swap, the affected processes can be 
suspended in wait on the swap area returning, and the console can 
begin screaming, "please put the swap area back online!"

	Erik <fair@clock.org>