Maybe I'm wrong, but does D25168 "geom(4): Look for aliases when searching for providers by name" [1], which is already accepted but not yet committed, help?
[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25168 On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:07:51 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just found another breakage due to nvd becoming a symlimk. I use gkrellm as > my system monitor and, after the update, my SSD showed no activity. Easy > fix to edit the configuration to disable nvd0 and enable nda0, but another > case of a tool not following the symlink. > > If I get a little time tomorrow. I'll try finding the code in gkrellm and > see if I can figure out whether the breakage is a roble in the port or a > system issue, but no promises. > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:43 PM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:47 PM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> Commands used were "gpart show nvd0" and "geli attach -d -k ************ > >> /dev/nvd0p7". Also tried both with and without the "/dev" which fail for > >> nvd* and succeed with nda*. > >> > > > > Ah. I see the problem. libgeom doesn't parse the <alias> nodes, nor does > > it use them when searching for a geom by name... > > > > I need to carefully think about how to fix it, though, since it may be an > > ABI change and we're getting trickily close > > to 14 to be mucking with this... > > > > Warner > > > > > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 -- Tomoaki AOKI <junch...@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
