On Tue, 07 Dec 2004, matthew green wrote:
   > raidframe is one reason to use overlapping disklabels.  i've in the
   > past done this so that i can access the in-raid filesystem on a kernel
   > that was lacking raidframe support...
   > 
   > i've also setup dumps directly to this partition, rather than via the
   > raidframe device.  then savecore finds it in swap like normal...
   
   Those are good reasons for disklabel to allow it to be done(*). I don't
   think they're a strong argument for sysinst to make it easy to do so
   though.


oh sure.  i was merely providing an actual case where it is useful.