Bug 204892

Summary:	zpool refuses to work with device symlinks
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Mikhail Teterin <mi>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Bugmeister <bugmeister>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	junovitch
Priority:	---
Version:	10.2-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Mikhail Teterin freebsd_committer

2015-11-29 07:19:17 UTC

My 3 SATA drives are listed under /dev as both sequentially-numbered ada as well as ad with numbers reflecting their positions:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 27 лис 14:45 /dev/ad4 -> ada0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 27 лис 14:45 /dev/ad6 -> ada1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 27 лис 14:45 /dev/ad8 -> ada2

I wanted zpool to use the aliases (ad4, ad6, and ad8) so that, should I plug in another device into slot 5 or 7, the pool continues to function.

Unfortunately, zpool didn't like that and kept rejecting my commands until I fed it ada0, ada1, and ada2.

Could it, please, be made wiser? Thanks!

Comment 1 Jason Unovitch freebsd_committer

2015-11-29 16:38:41 UTC

FYI: Support for the kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases was removed in https://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/changeset/base/289137.

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2025-02-11 00:05:42 UTC

^Triage: I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion.

By now, the version that it was created against is long out of support.
Please re-open if it is still a problem on a supported version.