Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:12:37 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using Geom to mirror root partitions? Message-ID: <62910.1069240357@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:05:56 GMT." <20031119110556.GA83112@genius.tao.org.uk>
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In message <20031119110556.GA83112@genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser writes: > >--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:42:18AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20031115014133.GB31237@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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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