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Subject: Re: Bug or Feature? -- Disappearing /dev/ nodes after mount
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In message <20200612092018.2da920b8.freebsd@edvax.de>, 
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

>Wow, thanks for providing the term. techn. "GEOM Withering",

Yes, helpful to know that.

>found in "man 9 g_wither_geom".
>
>Today I learned. ;-)

So did I.

But this behavior really should be documented in some additional
man pages... in particular gpart(8) and possibly others... and
not just in this one obscure man page for what I guess is a system
call.


Regards,
rfg