On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 11:58:03 -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 6 July 2012 11:44, Rick Miller <vmil...@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.
Compared to the new and modern GPT, it is. :-) However, if you keep using the "old" way, it will still be supported and will not confuse either BIOSes or other systems that are maybe installed on your machine. > There is no perf advantage for dedicated > disks. Maybe you get a > few kb of extra space. I'm also not aware of any performance issues. > Don't do it. > > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml According to the article, there are some BIOSes that don't seem to like disks not containing a "DOS primary partition" to start their boot chain. While this may be true, I have never experienced it. For maximum security, you can use the "old" approach of using fdisk + disklabel (creating slice, creating partitions within slice). This also delivers most compatibility for other systems, if it should be needed, e. g. in a multiboot environment. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"