Re: Where did the nvd devices go?

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 5:52 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 6:22 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Well, they are still around, but not functional. They are symlinks to nda
>> devices, but the symlinks don't work well.
>>
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> They work for filesystem access.
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Not too surprised, but I didn't try it. Should have looked more closely
before sending it.

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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Was this just a failure of muscle memory, or was there persistent config
> that failed?
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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.

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> 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.
>>
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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:
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I should have checked UPDATING.

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