Re: [PATCH] Re: swapcache bug?

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

On 9 Feb 1999, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> ???  With the latter OMAGIC format everthing is page aligned already.

Yes.

However, it's a question of pride too. I don't want to break "normal" user
land applications (as opposed to things like "ifconfig" that are really
very very special), unless I really have to.

As such, I want to support even the old 1kB-aligned ZMAGIC binaries for as
long as it's not a liability, and quite frankly the issue of whether you
make the page cache "offset" be a sector or a page offset is purely a
thing of taste, not a liability.

			Linus

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