I've inherited a similar bit of code that kicks in right after pivot (of Linux boot) and tries to disassemble and clean up whatever storage was concocted by the

I've inherited a similar bit of code that kicks in right after pivot (of Linux boot) and tries to disassemble and clean up whatever storage was concocted by the previous steps during boot, and then proceeds to assemble it using some user-supplied layout. The code is awful, but, really, if anyone's to blame, it's the Linux people who never cared to systematize and unify system's understanding and representation of storage.