On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> What are "native" disklabels? If they're different from Apple's partitioning
> stuff, why do we want them?

- For consistency with virtually every other NetBSD port,
- for floppy disks, which are obviously not partitioned, and
- for the future where MacOS isn't necessary to boot NetBSD.

Admittedly that last is a bit of a reach, but I honestly hope not too
unrealistic.

--scott