Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:06:40 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries? Message-ID: <CAHu1Y73%2BBorXPEK8TXMdEEZ91P5HLLe9xMZqCCk5mVO2UJHMPA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgm%2B2rb0o5QUmA7_3rd9yp88f%2BU7yVvOfznC0ecSBg9O9Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHzLAVE0CahZhkKzU5=bLy5AvKsq_qgmqwAiO9BhWD3k1_uFvQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207061842370.5024@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FF71637.9030206@d3photography.com> <20471.8240.321332.987229@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4FF724AF.9090602@ose.nl> <20120706202558.2a6d7e42.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAHzLAVH8hZ%2B=EXgUgihrAJ1EwtXvVZ1fgQcV6moDDitPYz2bRg@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgm%2B2rb0o5QUmA7_3rd9yp88f%2BU7yVvOfznC0ecSBg9O9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > Slices isn't the "old" way. There is no perf advantage for dedicated > disks. Maybe you get a > few kb of extra space. Don't do it. > > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml That is EXTREMELY old advice. The general advice, for this and many other things, is - don't do it, but if you do it, know what you're doing. ;-)
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