Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

[Michael Sierchio]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> 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. ;-)