Subject: Re: Getting block size for swap devices and files
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/28/2002 08:54:30
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> > On my system, the value seems to always be 512, but I don't beleive this
> > is really constant. Is it?
>
> I finnally committed some work in sys/compat/irix/irix_swap.c that
> assumes a swap block size of 512. It would be nice if someone
> knowledgable in swap matters could review this, I beleive it's not done
> The Right Way.

For now, 512 is probably best as it's the block size of the underlying
devices. :-)

Take care,

Bill