Bug 224966

Summary:	gbde: should append /bde to the underlying provider's physical path
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Alan Somers <asomers>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Alan Somers <asomers>
Status:	Closed Works As Intended
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	224963

Description Alan Somers freebsd_committer

2018-01-07 03:41:45 UTC

A gbde device's physical path should be the underlying provider's with "/bde" appended, if the underlying provider has a non-null physical path itself.

Comment 1 Alan Somers freebsd_committer

2018-03-10 02:02:27 UTC

Turns out this isn't as important as I thought.  gbde(8) currently doesn't even support BIO_GETATTR.  That means that zfsd will never use a gbde device for a physical path replacement, which means that zfsd will never replace a ZFS disk with the bare drive when it should be using the .bde version.

Since there's no risk of mishandling encrypted information, and I don't want to add features to the obsolete GEOM transform, I'm going to close the bug.