Bug 253709 - WARNING: Unable to alias xxx to enc@yyyyyyy - path too long
Summary: WARNING: Unable to alias xxx to enc@yyyyyyy - path too long
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 12.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-geom (Nobody)
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Reported: 2021-02-20 00:50 UTC by Peter Eriksson
Modified: 2021-02-20 01:31 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Eriksson 2021-02-20 00:50:26 UTC 
Some data structure in the kernel apparently is too small...

This (similar) warnings pop up on both our Dell and HP servers with SAS drives attached to SAS HBA controllers.

WARNING: Unable to alias gpt/efiboot0 to enc@n500056b3843283fd/type@0/slot@d/elmdesc@Drive_Slot_12/p1/gpt/efiboot0 - path too long
WARNING: Unable to alias msdosfs/EFISYS to enc@n500056b3843283fd/type@0/slot@d/elmdesc@Drive_Slot_12/p1/msdosfs/EFISYS - path too long
WARNING: Unable to alias gpt/gptboot0 to enc@n500056b3843283fd/type@0/slot@d/elmdesc@Drive_Slot_12/p2/gpt/gptboot0 - path too long
WARNING: Unable to alias gpt/efiboot1 to enc@n500056b3843283fd/type@0/slot@e/elmdesc@Drive_Slot_13/p1/gpt/efiboot1 - path too long
WARNING: Unable to alias gpt/gptboot1 to enc@n500056b3843283fd/type@0/slot@e/elmdesc@Drive_Slot_13/p2/gpt/gptboot1 - path too long

Now this isn't a big issue for us but it's still annoying with these warnings :-)
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-20 01:31:35 UTC 
^Triage: take a guess about assigning this to geom@.  There may not be a completely correct assignee.