On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:55:15 +0100
Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:

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> 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 a requirement on Sparc?
> > Ok to ignore the cylinder boundaries on x86?
> 
> OK to ignore the whole topic and let disklabel do its job.


So you don't know.
But that's ok. Me neither, that's why i asked.

(If you are interested, using a calculator and giving the size in
sectors not using a unit, doesn't get the rounding treatment and
appears to works just fine, on amd64 that is.)

Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question:
What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary?

- Robert