On 07/06/2012 09:06 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> 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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