>A lot of people have been asking for this recently, and I must admit I'm
>a bit puzzled as to why we need our own disklabels.

As of about a year ago the way disklabels were constructed from the MacOS
partition information had bugs in it.  If we could construct our own native
disklabels we could bypass those bugs (if Allan hasn't fixed them already).
In any case the translation between the formats was fixed, and I can
immagine that someone might want it done differently from the default.

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