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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?
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On 07/06/2012 09:06 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> 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. ;-)

agree, advice: don't use dedicated disks, it might be "dangerous if 
another fdisk silently modifies your disk or the BIOS does not 
understand it.
It's still in the FAQ though :)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DANGEROUSLY-DEDICATED






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