Tomáš, unfortunately your solution to the swap sharing problem is
suboptimal -- swapping through filesystem code to a file in a VFAT
filesystem will quite likely be a order of magnitude slower than raw
partition access. It's OK if you are a casual Linux user, but not
acceptable if you are a casual Windows user like me :).
Okuji, it's a matter of theoretical purism vs pragmatical problem
solving. As Marco already said, we can't change the behaviour of
non-free software. Hence we need to manipulate the swap partition before
booting Windows in this particular (and very common) use-case. Preparing
the swap partition for Windows is possible from a Linux shutdown script,
but this solution is fragile (one can imagine plenty of cases when the
script will not be run), and is not really Linux's responsibility
(preparing a partition for another OS). Which brings us back to the fact
that in this particular case it is the bootloader's responsibility. I
agree that this functionality should not be part of the core, but as
GRUB 2 is supposedly modular (haven't seen the code though), it should
be available as a module.
Could someone who knows the code please envisage what should be done in
order to implement the mkfs module?
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