with davidg about it, I hereby kill two undocumented misfeatures:
The code to skip a miniroot in the swapdev is not particular useful, and
if we need it we need it to be done properly, ie size the fs and skip all
of it not some hardcoded size, and subtract what we skip from the length
in the first place.
The SEQSWAP dies too. It's not the way to do it, it doesn't work, and
nobody have expressed any great desire for it to work. The way to
implement it correctly would be a second argument to swapon(2) to give
a priority/policy information. Low priority swapdevs can be made so
by adding them at a far offset (0x80000000 kind of thing), with almost no
modification to the strategy routine (in particular a offset per swapdev).
But until the need is obvious, it will not be done.
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