Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:34:57 +0100 frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:50:24PM +0100, Robert said that > > Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question: > > What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary? > > probably nothing if you will use the slic

Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:50:24PM +0100, Robert said that > Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question: > What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary? probably nothing if you will use the slices only exclusively with openbsd. other systems might make different

Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-21 Thread Robert
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:55:15 +0100 Jan Stary wrote: > On Dec 21 08:49:29, Robert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > adding slices using a size with units (eg: 200g), disklabel rounds > > the size to the nearest cylinder. > > I recon this is so the next slice starts at the beginning of a > > cylinder. > > >

Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-21 Thread Jan Stary
On Dec 21 08:49:29, Robert wrote: > Hi, > > adding slices using a size with units (eg: 200g), disklabel rounds the > size to the nearest cylinder. > I recon this is so the next slice starts at the beginning of a cylinder. > > What would break if disklabel wouldn't do that rounding? > Is it still

disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-20 Thread Robert
Hi, adding slices using a size with units (eg: 200g), disklabel rounds the size to the nearest cylinder. I recon this is so the next slice starts at the beginning of a cylinder. What would break if disklabel wouldn't do that rounding? Is it still a requirement on Sparc? Ok to ignore the cylinder