> My big question from this discussion is why do we need to have the
> whole-disk partition be one of the ones in the disklabel?

We don't.  Especially with wedges, where the current RAW_PART simply
corresponds to accessing the "underlying" device rather than one of the
wedge "partition" devices.  (It was necessary before simply because
there was no way to access the disk except through a partition.)

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