On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 5:52 PM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 6:22 PM Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, they are still around, but not functional. They are symlinks to nda >> devices, but the symlinks don't work well. >> > > They work for filesystem access. > Not too surprised, but I didn't try it. Should have looked more closely before sending it. > > I have no idea when the symlink of nvd to nda happened, but after updating >> my system to main-n263630-ab3e6234ab6e, at least geom related commands no >> longer function using nvd0p?. I hit this when trying to use gpart and geli. >> gpart claims "gpart: No such geom: /dev/nvd0." geli responds (after >> entering a passphrase) "geli: Provider not found: "/dev/nvd0p7"My previous >> system version was main-n262908-c16e08e5f324. >> > > These will work with nda. They should likely work with the nvd aliases, > but don't it seems (though you don't need the /dev/ for geom commands). > > Was this just a failure of muscle memory, or was there persistent config > that failed? > Yes, I had confirmed that nda worked and I know that /dev is not required for geom commands, but I've never bothered to test whether gpt/label worked and I tend to use labels. > > Was this intentional? If so, why was this change made? If not, could it >> be fixed? Since I usually use geli with the /dev/gpt devices, I didn't >> notice it right away, but it could certainly surprise many users. >> > 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*. All these questions are answered in the UPDATING entry from when I switched > the default: > I should have checked UPDATING. -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
