Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 22:12:41 EST



Hi,

> The advantage would be that it wouldn't require a v3 for platforms for
> which MIN_PAGE_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE, which accounts for a very large
> percentage of systems.
>
> You still have to look for the darn magic in two places, so there is no
> reason for it to be different.

The problem is if you can hit in two places then what PAGE_SIZE should
you use to size the contents of the swap header while remaining backward
compatible.

Im leaning towards Dave suggestion of creating a clean v3 swap header.

Anton
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