On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:34:57 +0100 frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> 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 slices only exclusively > with openbsd. other systems might make different assumptions. > > -f Yeah, didn't find anything apart of some old sparc related stuff, so i guess that there is only historical reason for rounding to cyl on amd64. On current harddisk the cyl/track stuff is all virtual. Still, if someone wants to enlighten me what still needs the cyl rounding ... - Robert
