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>> >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.

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>
>But aren't these OUR bugs? Since we're going to have to be able to read MacOS
>partition tables, wouldn't it be better to fix the translation, rather than
>leave it broken and try and make somethig else work right?

Scott Reynolds says Allan fixed the bugs several weeks ago.  Since Allan
clearly understood the problem I'm not surprised.

Part of my point (which perhaps I did not make clear) is that some of us
are neurotic (or have lousy partitioning SW, or whatever) and may want to
control the resulting BSD partition map in a way that may not be allowed by
the MacOS partitioning software.  Given good MacOS software, and no
filesystem types that can't be specified by it, and bug-free translation I
see no *need* for our own disklabels.  I just think we are giving up a
degree of control that *might* be useful, and *might* be easy to get.

Since I'm not going to do any of the work on this one I think I should shut up.

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