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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:58:03 -0700
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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?
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On 6 July 2012 11:44, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this explanation.
>
> Is there any performance advantage to using a "dedicated disk" layout
> over the old way of creating a slice and having your partitions within
> it?

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

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Eitan Adler