[Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD 2.1.1 now available

[Lucas Holt]

> First up. I just want to thank you for for this release and all the
> touble you took to make it. I'm seeing a gptid/diskid warning in
> dmesg(8) and /var/log/messages that I'm not encountering on FreeBSD
> or Linux:
> WARNING: Unable to alias gptid/e1117e44-22ad-11ec-a7aa-28d2440fd18a to 
> enc at n3061686369656d30/type at 0/slot at 1/elmdesc at Slot_00/p2/gptid/e1117e44-22ad-11ec-a7aa-28d2440fd18a 
> - path too long
> WARNING: Unable to alias gpt/mswap to 
> enc at n3061686369656d30/type at 0/slot at 1/elmdesc at Slot_00/p3/gpt/mswap - 
> path too long
>
> these are just 2 out of some 13 entries all grouped in one section of
> the log. While it doesn't *appear* to be causing me any troubles (now).
> Does this appear to be anything to be concerned about? Or better; any
> thoughts as to where I might look, so as to *correct* this?
>
> FWIW I'm attaching the excerpt from dmesg(8) which also includes the 
> output
> of gpart(8) list for the drive.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> --Chris

I'm still researching this, but I don't believe it's anything to worry 
about.

The issue is that enc generates a long path and then geom picks it up 
and tries to add even more additionally long things to hit the path 
limit for devfs.

Not sure if the right thing here is to modify what the enc driver is 
doing or to extend the path length.

I've actually found old bug reports in several FreeBSD based products 
including FreeNAS mentioning this very problem. See 
https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/3183

-- 
Lucas Holt
Luke at FoolishGames.com
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