On 2016-04-18, Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM -0700, Ted Roby wrote: >> Do any of you find that when dealing with sd1 and greater in bsd.rd you >> must explicitly create these devices? > > Yes. This behaviour is mentioned in FAQ 14 (14.10.1 - Installing to a > mirror) which states: > > "The install kernel only has the /dev entries for one wd(4) device and > one sd(4) device on boot, so you will need to manually create more disk > devices if your desired softraid setup requires them. This process is > normally done automatically by the installer, but you haven't yet run > the installer, and you will be adding a disk that didn't exist at boot." > > Have a look at: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidDI
Yes, but the faq doesn't talk about the need for this for upgrades (only install), nor in the section about FDE. And it's not obvious that you have to 'create' the device again for upgrades, nor that this is not destructive.
