/boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it.
Not true for all mobo's. Regardless, why not have a copy safe somewhere easier to manage then the following suggestion IMHO. Let the computer worry about remembering to copy it.
leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and call it /boot2 and try to remember to copy /boot to /boot2 each time you update the kernel.