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Isn't the whole point of persistent storage like hard drives to deal with the fact that computers shut off sometimes, and nothing can be "always 'running'"? So
by laughinghan 7y ago
Isn't the whole point of persistent storage like hard drives to deal with the fact that computers shut off sometimes, and nothing can be "always 'running'"?
Something below the object level (possibly part of the object system, possibly a layer below that) needs to read from disk and bootstrap all those agents/live objects/actors into existence.
- scroot 7y agoWell of course they aren't running when the computer is off. And yeah, you'd need something to bootstrap the system the same way you need a bootloader
- fragmede 7y agoThe storage on disk doesn't have to be a traditional hierarchical filesyste,m for anything after the kernel is loaded (+drivers), as long as the kernel is able to recombobulate the agents off the block addressable storage device, it can store them however it wants. Simply serializing swaths of memory to/from disk may not be the most efficient, but that should show its possible.