Using Geom to mirror root partitions?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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=
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>> >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?
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>> Rather:  leave a bit free at the end.
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>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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