Re: Where did the nvd devices go?

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 <rkoberman@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 <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:47 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@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
> >
> 
> 
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