Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:18:28 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency |
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Anton Blanchard wrote: > Hi, > >> I might be missing something but doesn't this break every >> SWAP partition that was created with something other than >> MIN_PAGE_SIZE? > > It does. I was thinking we could work around it in ppc64 (64kB is quite > new), but I forgot there are options on sparc64 to change the page size :) > > The other option is to create a v3 swap format that doesnt use any > PAGE_SIZE parameters. >
The best thing to do would be to look for the magic both at PAGE_SIZE (for compatibility) and MIN_PAGE_SIZE (for sanity.)
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