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From: Kenny McCormack on 3 Aug 2010 10:05
In article <PoCdna6ImPHfvMXRRVn_vwA(a)giganews.com>,
John Reiser <jreiserfl(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Is there anything architecture-specific about "mkswap"?
>
>>> Read The Fine Manual page: give the command "man mkswap" to a shell program
>
>> So, what's the answer to the question?
>
>The answer to the question is, "Yes." This answer is contained directly
>in the *next* sentence, which you snipped:
>
> There you will see that mkswap depends on the native
> page size of the hardware, usually 4KiB or 8KiB.
>
>Note the words, "mkswap depends on the native page size". That dependency
>is architecture-specific.

Yes. I got that. I was making a more subtle point, that seems to have
escaped you.

--
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

- John Kenneth Galbraith -

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