Using Geom to mirror root partitions?

[Josef Karthauser]

Hi Poul,

I've not been keeping up to date with recent developments.  Are we any
closer to being able to mirror with geom yet?

Joe

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:12:37PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20031119110556.GA83112 at genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser writes:
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> >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <20031115014133.GB31237 at genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser w=
> >rites:
> >>=20
> >> >What's the best way to prepare for this?  Should I leave some
> >> >unallocated space at the beginning of the disk so that any magic geom
> >> >bits can be inserted later?
> >>=20
> >> Rather:  leave a bit free at the end.
> >>=20
> >
> >How much would you recommend I leave?  Proportional to the disk size, or
> >just enough space for data structures?
> 
> In theory one sector should do fine, but make it a bit more.
> 
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